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Quitting Smoking Can Be Unnerving At Times

JonesCarpeDiem
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When that happens,

you have to reach a little higher

to get over the deep water.

It's really only scary because

we can't see the bottom, right?

You can gain enough altitude

to clear that deep water

if you have a little faith

and keep your head about you.

 

 

remember

Time is the Healer

4 Comments
jonimarie
Member

@JonesCarpeDiem If you have a little faith....yep that goes along way

indingrl
Member

I had a little faith that if you used lemons to bust your craves @JonesCarpeDiem 

Then so could I and when you suggested it 

I tried it 

I grabbed a lemon and bit into it peel and all and I was not thinking of sucking on a death stick 

I was thinking WOW that is bitter and sour I need some water 

Your faith in that lemons for crave buster and passing your little faith on to me and I pass my little faith on to this very day 

Biting into the lemon busts craves

Thanks for sharing @JonesCarpeDiem 

My dear friend Dale nope with you on this wonderful Thursday

WoooooWOOO you gotta have a little faith faith faith in your fellow becomeanX elders suggestions

I do @JonesCarpeDiem  in your experience strength and hope given freely day by day I appreciate you Dale

Amen 

 

MarilynH
Member

100 % truth! Time really is the healer!

biscuit9
Member

No faith in MYSELF to quit, but I did have faith in GOD to help me quit.   He's the reason I am quit today.  So yeah, have faith.

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.