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Did You Know If You Break The Process Of Quitting Into Percentages That

JonesCarpeDiem
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1. Nicotine is 10% of the quitting process?

2. That unlearning the habit/psycological addiction is what makes people smoke after they've quit and is the other 90%?

While you are still a smoker, nicotine is what creates the physical need to have another.

Once you stop using it, nicotine is out of your body in 72 hours.

So why is quitting so hard once the nicotine is out of your body?

The answer is number 2.

Take the 130 day challenge from your last puff and you are well on your way to freedom.

You can't have a forever quit if you can't get through the first 130 days. Commit to that amount of time and you will not be thinking of smoking or being a smoker but rarely.

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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.