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Life's not always rosy - The trick is to avoid the thorns

Chuck-2-20-2011
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Good afternoon Exer’s!

I hope this message finds you well and smoke free! Putting down an addiction is never easy. It’s a lot like life. Life’s not always rosy. The trick is to try to avoid the thorns. Quitting is a lot like that I think. We fight with ourselves constantly, trying to keep ourselves convinced that we’re doing the right thing while the very brain that is telling us this is also trying to tell us to smoke.

We argue with ourselves constantly even though we know we’ve already made up our minds. This is the part that is dangerous to our quits. We have to be able to shut down a part of our brain that has been a part of us for years. This isn’t always easy since that part of the brain is also like a child with no sense of right or wrong.

But just like a child, that part of the brain can be trained. It can learn that there is something wrong with the habit. Unfortunately, it takes time to train that renegade part of our brains. There’s just no way around the fact that we have to spend some time creating our freedom. But that’s not such a bad thing, now is it?

After all, what could be better then putting down the old ball and chain that we drag around the entire time we’re enslaved! What could be better then the new found health that appears when we quit. What could possibly be better then watching our children or grandchildren grow and become the wonderful human beings that we always knew they would be.

But the freedom really is the big prize. When I first quit, I did have an idea or a thought of what the freedom would be like. Thing is, I never knew just how enslaved I was until I was rid of my addiction once and for all. And when we take something away from ourselves like freedom then we really do lose a piece of our lives that cannot be taken back.

But that doesn’t have to be the end of it. We can take back our futures! We can take back our freedom! We can rise above the need to poison ourselves and prove once and for all that we will not stand for our lives to be sucked slowly away by an addiction that can do us nothing but harm.

We’re all better then that! That’s why we’re here. So climb on that horse and ride onward to your new life of freedom. It’s been there waiting for you all along. Now all you have to do is keep that commitment strong and before long you’ll have a new addiction, and that addictions called a love of life!!

Onward to freedom!!

Chuck

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