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So I speak of getting through the first 130 days with a willing attitude

JonesCarpeDiem
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and if you do, your idea of quitting smoking will be changed from impossible to easily managed

look at this time period as the trial run of your final quit.

 

knowing that we are the only ones that make us smoke

what's going to make you smoke after 130 days?

 

The answer is too much alcohol or you start talking the same old smoking routine crap until you talk yourself into smoking.

But it's easily managed. YOU JUST DON"T DO IT.

And after time you really do forget about it.

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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.