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Share your quitting journey

Are you waiting for the perfect time to quit?

JonesCarpeDiem
Member
2 2 91
2 weeks ago

How long are you willing to wait for that perfect time?

What if you just get started and some unexpected emotional event strikes?

You must realize there is no perfect time just as there are no guarantees in life. Life keeps happening.

Planning to quit involves planning for the unknown.

You may have to say, "I just quit smoking and I'm on edge. Please excuse me," and walk away for a few minutes or reschedule the conversation.

That's perfectly okay in most any situation. I believe even people who have never smoked would understand.

This is your health you're saving. Your health and your future. What is more important?

Think long and hard about this.

Emotional upheavals or drinking past your tipping point are the cause of most failures.

Time is the healer

 

 

2 Comments
jonimarie
Member
2 weeks ago

Well said @JonesCarpeDiem . And Time is the Healer 

biscuit9
Member
2 weeks ago

Is this a trick question Dale?  Pretty sure there is no perfect time to quit.  I kept waiting for a nice 6 week coma, but it never happened.  For those on the fence, just quit, just do it.  You will not regret it.

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.