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Oct 27 10 5:37 PM
The problem is people who are just off for one month, or a week, or a few days, or people who are here reading just considering quitting will see posts like this and begin to dread the "inevitable" two month mark where they have now been led to believe that they were going to begin to experience a tough and miserable time.
The truth is that there is nothing inherently threatening about the two month mark. Some people may experience some tough times, others will not. This is no different than the three month mark issue discussed above or any time frame.
Everyone reading here needs to know though that as long as they keep reminding themselves of the reasons that they first quit and keep reinforcing their reasons for wanting to stay off that even at these arbitrary moments of smoking thoughts that their quits will stay intact as long as they stick to the commitment that they made to themselves to never take another puff!
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The very same principle applies to people who have been off for 10 days, or 20 days, or any other denomination of days. No one reading here at Freedom should be getting the idea that there is some predestined number of days, weeks, months of years that that are going to be bad. The only day that we know will end up being bad is the day that you renege on your personal promise to yourself to never take another puff.
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Saying that people will experience physical changes for 21 days is possibly causing a person who is having no changes to worry that there is something wrong with his or her quit or healing process, and worse yet, give the impression to someone who may be having symptoms of problems that are totally independent to quitting that what he or she is experiencing is to be expected, and result in the individual not seeking needed medical assessment for what may be an actual physical problem that requires medical intervention. The strings "Is anyone else experiencing the symptom of...?" and Giving and getting medical advice online. address these concerns.
See also The Teaching of Conventional Wisdom at Freedom.
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