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And on the third day...I LAUGHED

JonesCarpeDiem
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     I was out of work when I quit smoking and I was going to my friends house each day the first two weeks of my quit to play guitar all day.

     As I walked down the steps into my friends patio the third morning of my quit, my friends brother walked into the patio from the workshop smoking a cigarette.

     It was a trigger but I caught myself and in doing so, it became a gotcha moment. I knew just because he was smoking, I didn't need to smoke. It made me laugh.

     For the next week, every time I thought of smoking, I laughed. From that point on, I thought of laughing instead of smoking. 

     You cannot help but change your mind when you hear yourself laugh.

If you don't feel like laughing, LAUGH anyway. You'll feel stupid and it will make you laugh.

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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.