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Share your quitting journey

I just posted ths as a response but am reposting as a blog

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-07-2024 02:11 PM

I didn't really have any family support.

My wife and daughter didn't smoke. My wife knew I smoked but I smoked outside. My daughter didn't know I smoked until she was 12.

I didn't get any atta boy's from them as I progressed. The quitnet smoking site (recently dissolved) and, the people on it were my support.

My participation was key. This is a solo gig. People who never smoked or vaped don't have a clue.

They were never in nicotines grip.

SO, HOW SERIOUS ARE YOU ABOUT QUITTING?

we are here to help

Keep participating here. Be very invovled in the process. Learn everything you can. If you can't find what you're looking for using key words in the search box, ask. Treat it as a master class to save your health. That's what it is!

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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.