12 Years Today without a Cigarette

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When attempting to quit a habit, it's very important to change your identity associated with that habit. For the example of quitting smoking, saying "I'm trying to quit" means you still identify as a smoker and are therefore in an active fight with your true identity - which is much more susceptible to failure and relapse. However, if you say "I'm a non-smoker", you have incorporated that life change into your identity and are therefore much more likely to sustain.
 
RP-29 said:
When attempting to quit a habit, it's very important to change your identity associated with that habit. For the example of quitting smoking, saying "I'm trying to quit" means you still identify as a smoker and are therefore in an active fight with your true identity - which is much more susceptible to failure and relapse. However, if you say "I'm a non-smoker", you have incorporated that life change into your identity and are therefore much more likely to sustain.
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Could they just say “I don’t smoke”? Identifying yourself as a non-smoker feels a little like identifying yourself as a furry or a vegan or other such nonsense.
 
RP-29 said:
When attempting to quit a habit, it's very important to change your identity associated with that habit. For the example of quitting smoking, saying "I'm trying to quit" means you still identify as a smoker and are therefore in an active fight with your true identity - which is much more susceptible to failure and relapse. However, if you say "I'm a non-smoker", you have incorporated that life change into your identity and are therefore much more likely to sustain.
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williewilliejuan said:
Could they just say “I don’t smoke”? Identifying yourself as a non-smoker feels a little like identifying yourself as a furry or a vegan or other such nonsense.
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I agree with you both.

I quit about eight years ago after smoking for about 25 years. After I got over the physical addiction, I realized that possibly the harder thing to change was that I kind of defined myself as a smoker. That's what I'd been since my mid-teens. It was less what I called myself, but more what I thought of myself. Once you flip that, you're good, but it's pretty difficult.

The big thing with quitting smoking or anything else, you have to really want it. I'd tried to quit before but didn't really want to and it failed.

When I decided that I really wanted to quit, I did it. For the first year, I kept a pack of cigarettes on me pretty much at all times because fuck them, I'm done.
 
SlinkyRedfoot said:
The big thing with quitting smoking or anything else, you have to really want it. I'd tried to quit before but didn't really want to and it failed.
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For example, I keep saying that I'm going to quit jerking off in the trashcan in my office, but I really don't want to, so here I am, typing with my left hand while I furiously yank my schvanz underneath my desk with my right.
 
For me the toughest part was not having a cig when i'm drinkin beers. My dad died of lung cancer at 44 so that had a little to do with me quitting, don't wanna go out like that!
 
temptresstoo said:
46 years, 10 months, 26 days since I had a cigarette.
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Now that you mention that, I just remembered that my last cigarette was on a New Year's Eve, so it would have been 12/31/2016. Eight years and thirteen days ago.

My quitting was not a New Year's resolution, it just worked out that way.
 
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