I recently came across this question on Yahoo! Answers, and, since it’s a couple of months old, I thought it would be more worthwhile to answer it here (after all, the original poster, Victor, probably stopped checking for answers some time ago, but I know a lot of smokers have questions very similar to this one). Here’s the original question:
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Question from Yahoo! Answers
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What Happens 3 Months After Quitting with Nicotine Replacement?
You start smoking again.
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Choosing Your Pain
Somebody reminded me recently of a post that I wrote way back when I first quit smoking titled, “choose your pain.” In it, I talked about how smokers have to choose between the pain of change and the pain of regret, and cautioned that,
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Just for Today
I found a list of affirmations posted somewhere very early on in my quit that all started, “Just for today…” I rewrote some of them, added a few at the end, and posted them on my quit smoking support site. I stumbled across the list this morning while looking for something else, and thought they were worth posting again, so here they are:
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Never Let It Go Unchallenged
Do you really believe you can stop smoking? If not, why not? In an earlier post, I encouraged you to think about the “escape hatches” you’ve used in the past to give yourself an out when the quit got too tough, and to tell yourself that you can stop smoking in spite of them.