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As quitting Is a process and not an event, why not focus on knowing it will get better in time and you will be over it

JonesCarpeDiem
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My mom taught me to turn my head when I got a shot. I "got it" the fist time. 🙂

After that, I rarely even knew when they actually gave me the shot.

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/06/26/what-to-expect-...

Everyone here who says "you can do it" and "stick with it" has typically made it through the beginning of the process and is encouraging you to do the same.

Look beyond the confusion and temporary discomfort. When the nicotine has dissipated from your system, you are only unlearning something you've done so many times that you don't feel right not doing it. Don't turn it into more than that.

Believe you can do it and get through it!

Onward and Upward!

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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.