Why Do We Care?

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About 5% of people who try to quit smoking make it one year.

It's very difficult odds.

And its difficult to see all the "I caved" posts but, it's just in the percentages.

Now, why we care and what we do.

This is not about willpower or strength.

I personally try to change a persons mindset and get them thinking differently so they succeed.

Some people listen and get it but some just want to fly with one wing and a string of failures.

whether you like me or the other old timers or not, you need to make something work to quit.

coming back here every couple weeks or months and saying I caved is not going to get you into the 5%.

You need to learn from your mistakes and some of ours.

we can't be with you to warn each of you 24/7 that you are in danger. You have to police your own brains

and watch out for landmines

You make sure you come here and post BEFORE YOU SMOKE!

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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.

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