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Share your quitting journey

Good results require work and time to achieve

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎02-12-2024 11:05 AM

If you quit for two weeks and it felt like you were at your wits end and give up, what have you accomplished?

You've basically decided for yourself that two weeks without smoking is your limit.

But is it?

You can make your next challenge to get past that two week marker.  Do it sooner than later. Years can pass. Don't let them.

Will you succeed?

If you will allow it.

You see, all challenges lead to the next and, if you will settle in for the ride, time will distance you from your old patterns and routine and, the idea you cannot quit.

Time Is The Healer

I took this yesterday

that snow is 80 miles away

80 miles.jpg

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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.