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Share your quitting journey

Do something new or renew something you were previousy drawn to and enjoyed.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎08-22-2023 06:29 PM

That new experience or renewal you experience will help you keep your quit.

2 reasons why?

You're experiencing it without smoking is the first half of it.

Second half:  In experiencing it you may be feeling what you're experiencing for the first time because you aren't thinking about the next cigarette.

This is how you rewrite those neural pathways,

one of the keys.

I took up photography after I quit. Once it went digital and was free of the high costs of film and developing there was no obstacle to enjoying it.

 

Find somehing you love to do or eat something like this dopamine flinging coconut mango cake tart I found at a French bakery  chain P*ris Ba*uette this morning.

NO Napoleons, I ASKED. I'M SHOCKED.

cake tart.jpg

A slice was $7 but I needed it bad!

Get your hobbie

Get your dopamine

I had a slice and

I was a happy me.

 

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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.