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You can't smoke if you don't keep any around. (if you live with a smoker, this may not apply)

I can't tell you how many people have lost their quits because they kept cigarettes around for an "emergency."

If you have to get dressed, find your keys, walk to the car, open the door, turn on the ignition, back out of the driveway, get to a store, walk in, get out your money, ask for cigarettes................

There are a lot of steps before you can smoke if they aren't sitting in a drawer in the next room.

Every step is an opportunity to think about what you are doing and change your mind.

Smoking is not required. Breathing is!

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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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