thank you so much for your words of wisdom Dale. It is cold and raining here so I think it is a good day to stay in and stay warm. cookie is wrapped up in here blanket and is sound asleep. I hope you have a wonderful smokefree day.
Thanks for your wonderful advice and 100 % true. My quit is where it is because I finally figured out that there would never be a good time to quit smoking. So just do it and the rest is history and quitting smoking was and is the smartest thing I've ever done in my life, 146 wonderful smoke free days and counting.
Hello,
My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit.
HOW I QUIT
I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started.
When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.
