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Share your quitting journey

You can skip the hard parts with the right attitude and knowledge.

JonesCarpeDiem
Member
4 1 72
a week ago

Wouldn't it be great to know what to expect so you are in the drivers seat throughout your quit?

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/t5/Journals-Blogs/What-To-Expect-In-The-First-Four-Months/ba-p/99...

Remember, once the nicotine is gone, quitting is mostly a mind game.

 

 

1 Comment
biscuit9
Member
a week ago

I sympathize with quitters, when I read "I just don't know how I am going to live without my cigs/vape/dip,  I am so afraid to quit".  I get it!  The feeling at that time is like, someone pulling the rug out from under your feet.  You feel like without the nic you cannot live, breath or survive and that thought alone, makes you keep smoking.  It's an overwhelming feeling and I can still sense that feeling of "I can't make it without my smokes"....I can't let go of them.  That was the voice that won, so many times.  The FEAR kept me smoking for years.  

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.