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what are you actually fighting when you quit smoking?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-01-2014 01:58 PM

You are simply fighting the desire to smoke. The desire to smoke is not an order from some higher up. You build that desire by talking it up in your head. It's much easier to overcome if you accept that you've quit instead of talking up some need to smoke in your head.

We never really enjoyed every cigarette every day. We may have enjoyed one or two. The rest were mindless repetition

You have the power to overcome the desire to smoke by remembering what you say you want for yourself. A good positive statement is "I don't do that anymore". Say it out loud before the thoughts of smoking take over. Say it more than once.

If you aren't here to quit smoking and be free of it, why you are here? Make a plan and put it in gear!

Onward and Upward!

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cookie804
Member
‎10-01-2014 02:12 PM

Dale, I really only enjoyed 3 of my cigarettes a day and that was after I ate. I have gotten over that now thank God.

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856beverly
Member
‎10-01-2014 02:13 PM

Educate the mind... the body will follow.  Thanks, Dale.

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annb
Member
‎10-01-2014 03:18 PM
Yes you are so right it was prob like only one I ever "enjoyed" per day. I think that's why I still have this one fierce crave every day (usually early evening) It is very "consistent" and very annoying!! And maybe thats why we all have had to deal with the "just one" whisper phenomenon! Lol. Learning to ignore it more all the time tho! Happy Happy!!
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renee108
Member
‎10-01-2014 08:14 PM

I have been using the "i don't do that anymore" over the last three days and it has worked. I actually had a full on conversation, out loud, with myself yesterday about why I did not want to stop and get cigarettes on the way home from work. I appreciate your page and inspiration. 

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Sammy.J
Member
‎10-02-2014 01:48 AM

We got some good quitters above me. Thanks Dale. "I don't do that anymore" has helped me in my quit more than anything.

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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.