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Teach

4 hours 4 hrs

6,982 Days Quit

Repost:  Quitting is Hard?  How About Dying?  The 3 Part Plan

Quitting is hard - there is no getting around that.  Can't sugar coat it as I know very few people who have skated through the process.  Good news is ....
1.  it gets better as you figure out other ways to cope without smoking........
2.  You start to feel better......  
3.  The smoke screen clears and you realize smoking gave you nothing..........
4.  Smoking is never an option in life.
Days build up and in time smoking becomes a distant memory - one that may still enter your head but is easily dismissed.  You discover that by sticking with the program and committing to the process.
Quitting may not always be easy - but it is doable.
KTQ
Cara
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Quitting is Hard? How About Dying? The 3 Part Plan.
From: allsfair
Date: 2014-01-08 13:56:45 
Message:
 So what's all the complaining about? You smoked for 10, 20, 30, 40 years, and what, you thought the first 10 days was going to be easy? First 30? You're not going to get off that easy, and your inner addict (who is a liar and wants to kill you) doesn't want you escaping from the choke hold. Do you have what it takes? Of course you do!

You're not going through anything we all haven't gone though. You just have to decide whether you want to live or die - it's not too hard of a decision, at least it wasn't for me.

However, certain smoking death and costly misery in the meantime will always be refunded to you at the door as and when you leave. See ya...

I know, pretty harsh eh? But, unfortunately, those are the facts.

Here are some tips:

1. If you don't pick up and light up, even if your ass falls off, you won't smoke. You just have to go through whatever you go through physically until the drug leaves your system (3 days isn't that long - just suffer through it). If you are on NRT, you'll have to do this eventually....

2. Your inner addict is a liar and wants to kill you. The best is yet to come with this one as you move through the process and its always working, working on you. At the beginning, you are still in the stranglehold. That's why you are constantly thinking about smoking every minute. Before your addict had you in that chokehold and you were just mindlessly puffing away, killing yourself. Where was your mind? It gets better - again, you just have to suffer through it and you'll get to part 3.

3. Once you get over the physical part (chemical) and wriggling out of the chokehold you have to go about changing your mind BACK to that of a non-smoker, for whom smoking is never the answer to anything - smoking is never the result for a non-smoker because they don't' smoke (Imagine). You didn't come out of the womb with a pack of Marlboros asking the doc "got a light?" so you're just returning to your natural state (which way is being blocked by your inner addict who is a liar and wants to kill you).

Here's the thing, even with 8 hours without smoking, you'll never be closer to freedom than you are right now. Set down a program and stick to it - fight it out - flush the chemicals, wriggle out of the chokehold and set your mind free.

Just don't smoke no matter what else happens or comes up and eventually this will all be a bad memory, but a memory necessary to always preserve that quit. If you do #1 (don't smoke, even if your ass falls off) you will get to #2 and #3 and this all gets easier from there - once you're a non-smoker again, it's all just maintenance (just "not smoking," go figure).

This all takes time and effort - it's not easy and if you're not committed, I'm sorry to say, you won't make it.

Stop killing yourself - stop smoking - stay quit - change your mind - love yourself.

It's all worth it. You can and will make it.

Houston
Day 3396

Repost: Quitting is Hard? How About Dying? The 3 Part Plan

Quitting is hard - there is no getting around that. Can't sugar coat it as I know very few people who have skated through the process. Good news is....
1. it gets better as you figure out other ways to cope without smoking........
2. You start to feel better......
3. The smoke screen clears and you realize smoking gave you nothing..........
4. Smoking is never an option in life.
Days build up and in time smoking becomes a distant...#1 (don't smoke, even if your ass falls off) you will get to #2 and #3 and this all gets easier from there - once you're a non-smoker again, it's all just maintenance (just "not smoking," go figure).

This all takes time and effort - it's not easy and if you're not committed, I'm sorry to say, you won't make it.

Stop killing yourself - stop smoking - stay quit - change your mind - love yourself.

It's all worth it. You can and will make it.

Houston
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Teach

4 hours 4 hrs

6,982 Days Quit

Good morning everybuddy!
Happy Saturday to you!!!!!!

Up and going for the day. I have a busy one as I am taking my car in for an oil change and check up before the big move. Just have t swap over the winter tires closer to the move date. Saying NO to smoking and keeping to my path along the Freedom Road. I offer my hand in friendship and support to the next winner joining me kicking ash to the curb today.
Have a super Saturday!
Cara
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Friday Smile

Teach

yesterdayyesterday

6,982 Days Quit

Repost:  Only On Day One

Excellent repost!
KTQ
Cara
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A repost from TypsyMcStagger/Jani:
From tolly on 8/16/2006 6:34:54 PM
Repost, Author Unknown

ONLY ON DAY ONE

So many times people say that they're on day one and it's an understated, quiet, anti-climatic humble statement. They seem almost apologetic to the crowd. They are only on day one, how insignificant.

Well, let me tell you something ... Day one is the most important day of the entire quit! Without Day One, there is no quit!

It's absolutely the MOST important day! And it should be shouted from the rooftops! It should be heralded with trumpets blaring! Day One is cause for greater celebration than Day 100!

Oh, Day 100 is wonderful. Success is stamped all over Day 100, but without Day One, there is no Day 100. Without Day One there is nothing.

So here is to Day One and all those who were brave enough to enter it and embrace it and allow it to be their reality. Congratulations to you for being willing to enter Hell Week!

I see Hell Week as a challenging, long, suffering, miserable week and here these people are ... Ready - Willing - And Able to walk up to it and say "I'm here!"

Without that, you have no quit. Without that willingness to walk up to Hell Week and offer yourself like some sacrificial lamb on a rock slab, you have nothing. You are the bravest of any day, on Day One! You are the most challenged on Day One. That is the hardest day of the entire quit. Because that is the day that you took your whole world and did the impossible. You turned it around 180 degrees! You turned night into day. You made the sun into the moon. You took everything that seemed normal and right and tossed it into the wind and said "give me abnormal and wrong!"

Ever since Day One, I have been inviting abnormal and wrong into my life. And I have never felt so alive in all of my days on this earth.

If I could do it all over again, I would jump into Day One screaming and cheering with banners and ribbons flowing from my arms. And I would wear a big hat that proudly stated "DAY ONE" on it! Because something happened that I never bargained for. Facing the fear and allowing Day One to enter my life was the first of many more wonderful challenges. And it was as if somebody handed me a key (a master key!) and said "Here, this opens more doors, discover yourself!"

Welcome to Hell. It is the most wonderful place! Because past this lies Freedom. I'd walk this walk 100 more times if I had to. It's that beautiful.

Repost: Only On Day One

Excellent repost!
KTQ
Cara
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A repost from TypsyMcStagger/Jani:
From tolly on 8/16/2006 6:34:54 PM
Repost, Author Unknown

ONLY ON DAY ONE

So many times people say that they're on day one and it's an understated, quiet, anti-climatic humble statement. They seem almost apologetic to the crowd. They are only on day one, how... Show more

Teach

yesterdayyesterday

6,982 Days Quit

Good morning all
Happy Friday to you!!!!!!!

Up and going for the day today. Very happy it is Friday and another week bites the dust. I am making this a NO smoking day to celebrate Fri-yeah!!!! Keeping to my path along the Freedom Road kicking ash as I go. Who will join me today.
Have a good one
Cara
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Thursday Smile

Repost:  An addict, is an addict, is an addict

Another excellent Gummer repost.  I may forever be an addict but I have the power to choose not to smoke.  I will be living my life in freedom  because I refuse to hand over my power and return to being a slave to my addiction.
Have a great day.
Cara
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An addict is an adict is an addict
From: gummer
Date: 2014-01-03 12:11:14 
Message:
 
I am sure the new heroin user thinks his habit is fine and dandy at first, something that he enjoys and that makes life better.

How long do you suppose that honeymoon period lasts?

How long before he realizes he is trapped and there is real danger ahead that he had not considered?

How long before his drug makes him feel dreadful when he is using it... and also when he is not?

How long until he shoots up not because he wants it, but because he cannot stand how he feels when he does not get it?

In some ways smoking cigarettes is no different.

If you are sitting there "enjoying" it... don't fool yourself, you are still an addict.  An addict in the honeymoon stage.

If you are having trouble quitting, you already know you are an addict.  Have you realized yet that you feel bad NOT because you quit, but because you smoked for years...?  Are you seeing smoking yet as something you HAVE TO do just to feel like yourself?  Has your habit become a chore?  What's with that...?  Is that what you signed up to?  What happened to those carefree smokes you so enjoyed...?

Over the years smoking has morphed into something else, hasn't it?  Or maybe not... maybe it was always this way and you are only now coming to see it for it truly is!

If you really want to move on it's time to rethink what you are doing, to see smoking differently.  Try to think of nicotine as heroin instead, and you may just find the perspective you need to stay away from it.  Nicotine really is manipulating you in a similar way and you can only escape its clutches if you acknowledge how serious a situation it is.  This is not some innocuous habit.  Smoking is a hideous addiction... but you can beat it.  You can overcome it.  You can move beyond it and never look back.  But you have to see it for what it really is first.

You do not have to be an addict for the rest of your days.

You can be free again.

Gummer

Repost: An addict, is an addict, is an addict

Another excellent Gummer repost. I may forever be an addict but I have the power to choose not to smoke. I will be living my life in freedom because I refuse to hand over my power and return to being a slave to my addiction.
Have a great day.
Cara
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An addict is an adict is an addict
From: gummer
Date:... Show more

Good morning all
Happy Thursday to you

I am up and going for the day, heading into my office for the day. Smoking will not be part of my day today or any day thank you much. Saying NO to smoking cause I know it does nothing for me. I offer my hand to the next winning quitter joining me here on the Freedom Road kicking ash to the curb today.
Have a great day
Cara
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Repost: 50 months?..........Today

Awesome rant!
Have a great day!
Cara -who is not smoking today or any day!
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From montanawildhack on 12/19/2012 10:52:40 PM
How the heck did that happen?

Well, one day I didn't smoke and I went to bed a winner. I call that day, "TODAY".

Every time I am lucky enough to awaken in the morning, I call the day,... Show more

Good morning all
Happy Hump Day!!!!

Up and going for the day today. I am going out to lunch with management to celebrate my retirement. Has been a very celebratory week for me. My last day is one month from today. Saying NO to smoking again today and kicking that ash down the Freedom Road. Who will join me?????
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Cara
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Tuesday Smile

Repost: A Note on NOPE

Great repost. In my early days I could only do daily - I did NOPT - now I know it is NOPE
Quitting is doable!
KTQ
Cara
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A Note on NOPE...
From: lighthousekeep
Date: 2014-01-10 15:09:14
Message:
NOPE doesn't ask the question of *why* or *what* caused you to ignore it then Slip back to smoking.

It never will.

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Good morning all
Happy Tuesday!!!!!

A nice surprise yesterday - work PD day and I had a retirement party as well. It was so nice and it touched me. I am in my office today starting to wrap up the school year as I have 4 weeks left. Smoking will not be part of my day today or any day thanks much. Keeping to my path along the Freedom Road shouting NO to smoking as I kick that ash to the curb. Who will join me today?????
Have a great day
Cara
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