Welcome Aaron. You've made the right decision, and have found the right place.
What you need to do is find your Quit Group, the August '17 group -
here - and make your promise to not use nicotine today. That's it. Then you make the same promise tomorrow. And every tomorrow after that. We quit one day at a time, for 24 hours each time. We make our promise early in the morning, at the start of our day so that using nicotine is off the table for the rest of the day.
It sounds like the strangest thing - making a promise to a group of internet strangers that we don't know. But after a while, you come to know these internet strangers, and you will come to a point where letting them down is the last thing in the world you want to do. The system works if you trust it.
For another level of accountability, exchange contact digits with your brothers in quit. That way you can reach out to someone in a moment of real crisis. You also make yourself available for someone to reach out to in their crisis. They've got your back - you've got theirs.
My digits are available if you ask. Send me a PM - look at the upper right hand corner of your screen.
We quit hard here. After you've made your daily promise, there are no excuses. The tools are available to you to stay quit. A crave only lasts about four minutes. Do whatever it takes to overcome.
Proud to quit with you.
