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What is Your Quit Smoking Odssey Going to Be?

Giulia
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Are you going to skirt the land of the sirens - those romancing cigarette enchantresses, who sing pretty songs about “Just That One.”  The lyrics of which include, “it’s okay, just today,  one won’t  hurt you,  don’t be blue, coo coo coo,” “It’ll relieve your stress, so you won’t be a mess, coo coo coo.”  “You know you need one, just for fun, give it a try, you won’t die - coo coo coo.”  “Come on now baby, just give me a maybe, it’ll be fine, just one little time...coo coo coo.”
Well let me play Circe the witch goddess and try to advise you to plug up your ears and lash yourself to the commitment post.  In this journey you’re going to go past the six-headed monster Scylla (the daily cravings) (while you keep your cilia rowing strong), and hopefully past Charybdis, the whirlpool of relapse (while you keep the charbroiling smoke out of your lungs).  If you cling to the fig tree that is EX, the support on here, you just might make it to Freedomland.  Else Poseidon, God of the tar-filled smokey seas, may condemn you to another ten years of smoking.  And ten more years of smoking you really don’t need.
There are many ways to quit, only one way to relapse.  In other words, practice the NotOnePuffEver doctrine.  You can’t fail if you do.  It is the key to longevity.  It is the only key you need.

                                     

Don’t be like Sisyphus, condemned to roll a rock uphill forever.  Your rock being the desire to quit, but never the fulfillment of it.  Whether it’s never getting started or relapsing time after time.  For the rock doesn’t get any lighter with the rolling of it.  As a matter of fact it gets psychologically heavier with each failure.  Until the hill becomes a mountain and the rock a boulder so large it either can’t be moved or crushes you.  

                                                                              

You have to aim for the top of the hill and keep rolling until you get there.  No matter what.  No matter how tired you are, or what obstacles are in our way, you have to keep inching that rock upward every day.  Even if it’s only a little bit, it’s still on it’s upward course.  The momentum will help you.  And the rock will appear to become lighter with the dawning of each new smoke-free day because YOU have gotten stronger.  You’ve become accustomed to the technique.  The rock still weighs the same - you’re just better able to heft it. 
The view from the top of the hill is quite extraordinary.  And when you finally push that rock over the other side you’ll understand what true freedom feels like.  So keep going.  And if you haven’t yet started - DO.

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About the Author
Member since MAY 2008. I quit smoking March 1, 2006. I smoked a pack and a half a day for about 35 years. What did it take to get me smoke free? Perseverance, a promise not to smoke, and a willingness to be uncomfortable for as long as it took to get me to where I am today. I am an Ex but I have not forgotten the initial difficult journey of this rite of passage. That's one of the things that's keeping me proudly smoke free. I don't want to ever have another Day 1 again. You too can achieve your goal of being finally free forever. Change your mind, change your habits, alter your focus, release the myths you hold about smoking. And above all - keep your sense of hewmer. DAY WON - NEVER ANOTHER DAY ONE. If you still want one - you're still vulnerable. Protect your quit!