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There are many ways to quit

JonesCarpeDiem
0 11 14

Some say cold turkey is the only way.

If that was the only way, I wouldn't be quit.

So I say use an aid if you need to but UNDERSTAND WHAT THE AID IS DOING AND WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

All the nicotine aid CAN DO is give you some temporary relief from the physical withdrawal while you begin to unlearn the habit part. (the motions, the repetion and the memories connexted to smoking)

THAT'S ALL IT DOES. THAT'S ALL IT CAN DO.

DOES THAT SEEM LIKE MAGIC TO ANYONE?

IT CAN NOT AND  WILL NOT KEEP YOU FROM GOING TO THE STORE. IT WILL NOT STOP YOU FROM PUTTING ONE IN YOUR MOUTH OR LIGHTING IT!

Please don't convince yourself that the NRT is all that is keeping you quit. Your decision to not smoke must be your primary backup if you even begin to consider the thought of smoking. You have the power. You always have, you just didn't realize it.

Being WILLING to quit WINS over fighting with yourself to keep from smoking EVERY TIME.

The NRT was never intended to be used forever. If You Use it, don't let it use you!

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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.