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Old 06-22-2010, 11:24 AM  
Amputate Your Head
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I think the proper mindset is crucial when quitting cigarettes. Whatever mindset works best for you. For me, it was treating it from a strictly business point-of-view. It's something I've bought regularly for a long time, but now the expense is outweighing the pleasure benefit I get from it. So I cut it from the expense list like I'd cut a cable bill or phone bill and not think about it anymore.

Some things to remember:

It's just a decision. There's no sorcery involved.
Smoking is not an involuntary movement, it requires you to decide to smoke.
We all have a choice.
It takes 3 days for nicotine to flush out of your system.
You won't die from nicotine withdrawal.
Replacing cigarettes with other nicotine products is not quitting. It's substitution.

Same way I stopped buying a $60 bottle of tequila every day of the week. Expense outweighed the benefit.

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