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JonesCarpeDiem
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     This may ruffle some feathers but, everyone must understand this to overcome smoking.

  
   
    
          What would happen if you made a business agreement with someone and went back on your word? What if you made a promise to a friend and didn't keep it? And what would your reputation be if you  kept repeating this pattern?   
   
   

     What about accountability to and respect for ourselves?  We care what others think and honor our promises and agreements with them so why not to ourselves?

   

     Do we give ourselves a pass by blaming it on addiction? Yes there is a physical addiction but it leaves within a relatively short time. And, yes, there is a psychological addiction but that part is overcome by simply giving yourself enough time to unlearn those connections.

  

     Some people say they learn something each time they fail at this, yet, they continue to put themselves in the position to give themselves permission to smoke. Isn't that what they need to learn?

     The positive thing to be learned from this is to stop making EXCUSES.

        "If You've quit and You're still smoking, You're doing it Wrong."

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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.