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Share your quitting journey

I'm partial to the patch.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-25-2023 05:16 PM

I always figured that if I'm dosing myself with the same drug that's holding me to what I want to get away from, every time I want to,

that's not for me.

With the patch, you aren't doing that.

You are supposed to trust the patch is doing what it is supposed to be doing (it's time release) and use the patch that corresponds to the number of cigarettes you were smoking per day when you quit.

BIG DIFFERENCE

So, then,

How do you get off the patch?

YOU FORGET TO PUT IT ON AND SEE HOW YOU DO.

The next time it happens,

YOU DO IT AGAIN.

If you forget two days in a row, you keep one with you and promise yourself you'll use it instead of smoking.

I call this "listening to your body."

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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.