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Accept Change. EXPECT CHANGE!

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-18-2014 09:41 AM

If you haven't quit yet? Start smoking with your other hand.
It will get your brain off autopilot. The best way to succeed is to make small changes in your routine BEFORE YOU QUIT so your brain understands where your mind intends to go. Quitting doesn't have to be about suffering or missing out if you understand this.

Smoking is staying in one place (controlled by it) Quitting is changing direction.

Remember, 90% of the difficulty in quitting is the psychological addiction. (The hand to mouth and all the emotions or memories connected to smoking. You must relearn living without smoking for approximately 130 days before you are out of danger. During those first 4 months is when people drop the ball.
Be willing. Accept change. EXPECT change! Your life will shine with a different light when you've overcome the slavery of smoking.

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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.