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Fixing things that aren't right..is now possible

JonesCarpeDiem
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Quitting Smoking Is A Great Start...There is no lack of heartbreak in self discovery but there are amazing finds in the process as well. .

As we tend to live in the recent, the hardest realization is probably going to be, "I'm not very happy that I've wasted all this time being unhappy. Why didn't I see it?"

BECAUSE  Smoking is the greatest liar of all.

It was our pacifier for reality and It kept all of us trapped.

When you realize that, you are on the high road, perhaps, for the first time since childhood..

The good part of all this is YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR SITUATIONS. with the same resolve you used to quit smoking.

 

Enjoy Living, Keep the FAITH and GIVE IT THE TIME IT TAKES to unlearn it.

8 Comments
YoungAtHeart
Member

AMEN!  One of the little talked about benefits of quitting smoking is learning to think about and DEAL with things/people in your life.  When we were not quite happy when we smoked, we hid behind the cigarettes and didn't deal at ALL!

Freedom IS freedom in SO many ways!

Nancy

elvan
Member

Food for thought, a veritable FEAST, actually.

freeneasy
Member

Beating the addiction and habit is a hugh confidence builder.

nanawendy
Member

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are...The second greatest is being happy with what you find

gr8_start
Member

I agree with Nancy!!

Deena-A-Yenni
Member

Agreed.

cheyenne7
Member

Hard to believe that smoking was about that.....who would have known.....yet it is an escape, a pacifier, as u say......

In the beginning, that comfort zone is missed, until a new type of comfort zone can be built.....

You are right on.....appreciate all you teach here!!

moody_9-18-13
Member

Wonderful words of wisdom, as usual! 

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.