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dig deep......decide....get ready for the ride!

JonesCarpeDiem
0 8 32

your decision has to hold water, be final

your not gonna flake when the corn starts poppin

there is no emergency pack stashed for the great flood

there are no ashtray altars.

clear your heads because quitting is initially like a bad 3 week head cold.

you need to get all that "can i do it? crap thinking out of there

you're gonna be foggy, cry at the drop of a hat. maybe even want to hurt somebody. things will suck, smoking won't make them better

its three weeks people. jump in. get it over with.

three weeks and a few months in no mans land.

we will help you through

8 Comments
wirerat123
Member

I aint skeered!!!!!

I got this!

joyeuxencore
Member

I have EXperienced all the above to be true...still rocking No Man's Land...no wonder you call them 'blideside' craves...

Thanks for all your help Dale...some of us absolutely rely upon it.

debr
Member

Wonderfully Stated!!!

SarahP
Member

this ain't no picnic, it's life and death!  

jojo_2-24-11
Member

You can do this!

schneidl
Member

Well said, we can do this! I'm with joyeuxencore and still rocking NML. 

Thank you.

Peggyer
Member

You are sooo right about the blindside craves...wooosh!  But,  I'm free!!!  🙂

jycraw
Member

Your post made me take a deep breathe!

My quit date is tomorrow!!!! I have 5 cigarettes left and will not be buying another to get me through the rest of this day.

 

For the couple days when the site was down on my end -  I started having all the typical thoughts:

perhaps this is not the right time (changing jobs, etc)

perhaps I have not set my mind right...I remember having a deeper resolve in times past.

My new job allows smoking in the truck AND I have to ride with another driver for the first day or two...what if he/she smokes?

 

But, I am sticking with the quit date...and I will be going to the hypmosis class tomorrow evening.

Boy I missed the site when it was down....I hope it stays fixed for the next 3 weeks - at least.

About the Author
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.