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Smoking a cigarette does not solve anything

JonesCarpeDiem
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Once you have DECIDED to quit, it isn't so much about how you quit but about honoring your decision.

The core belief we all must come to in order to be free of smoking for life is smoking a cigarette does not solve any problem whether at work, home, at the scene of an accident, saying goodbye at the grave of someone you love, your wife or partner walking out on you or losing your job. Cigarettes aren't going to fix it.

Getting to the place of having that belief is more important than any method each of us comes up with for ourselves to get us started. True freedom from smoking is getting to that place of understanding.

So I say eat broccoli.

You can buy it fresh or you can buy it frozen.

Cook it in a pot, or bake it in the oven

Add a little cheese, use a little butter

IT WILL KEEP YOUR QUIT. Believe and you won't falter!

(reach for the understanding and you can skip the gas)

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About the Author
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.