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get an attitude of gratitude from each day you've quit

JonesCarpeDiem
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each day quit is a success.

let it drive you through the next day and then

let that one take you through the next.

that's how you succeed at this.

by knowing you made it through the day before and not focusing on

the negative.

quitting is a process.

you smoked for years.

give yourself 130 days with a positive attitude and see if you don't feel like a nonsmoker.

6 Comments
amandalee2
Member

I agree, as usual. That's what is getting me through each day. Not dwelling on the craving. Just one more day. Not one puff ever. Ya know, all the good stuff

chell
Member

I like the post, it evem makes sense to a pessimist like me  🙂  N.O.P.E.

aztec
Member

Very useful info, for a day at a time, looking bakc to "i did it yesteray I can do it today"

thanks Dale

G-d Bless

Alice23
Member

It is ALL about the attitude!

Thanks for posting this 🙂

sspahn49
Member

AA uses one day at a time, same applies here!! Addiction is Addiction!!!

Strudel
Member

Love it!

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.