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Share your quitting journey

It isn't enough to think someone who is quitting around the same time as you is going to be your biggest help

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-16-2014 02:44 PM

Whining to each other about what you are going through isn't going to keep you  quit.

Getting strength from someone who has no more stength than yourself  isn't going to keep you quit.

Drawing on the experience of someone who has the same or less experience than you isn't going to keep your quit.

Watching someone with the same quit date as you smoke and leave the site without saying anything to you isn't going to keep your quit.

This is why we stick around so it isn't the blind leading the blind.

If you don't believe me? Stick around. You will find out soon enough.

You don't pay to go to college to learn what you already know. You go to learn what someone else knows. Wasting time going in circles is not productive.

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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.