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I often spend as much time figuring out how do do something the best way,

JonesCarpeDiem
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as the time it takes to do it.

     As a contractor, I had a set of plans to go by for larger projects.  For medium and smaller non- permitted projects, the owners usually gave me an idea of what they wanted and turned me loose.

     Many times, I came up with better, less expensive solutions than the engineers.

     I knew nothing about quitting smoking.

I played guitar 10 hours a day my first two weeks, I learned to "laugh at it" when I was tempted or triggered, and, joined a site the end of my second week after I forgot to put on a patch two days in a row.

I asked questions

     I learned how to talk people off the smoking ledge, and, I researched everything I could find.

That was almost 15 years ago.

Invest yourself

Learn to laugh

Stay on the

No Smoking Path 

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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.