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DON'T DO IT!

Giulia
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Can we Elders say it too many times?  No.  Will you listen?  I don't know - will you?  Will you heed it?  Will you pay attention.  Will you protect your quit? 

Dale (jonescarp)  just put up a blog about drinking killing quits.  Believe it.  If you're newly quit - stay away from the drinks.  This doesn't mean forever, but it does mean during the beginning fragile stages of your quit.  Especially the first month.  Yes MONTH.  Drinking is the best, fastest quit killer of which I know.  If you want to relapse, if you want to lose your quit - if you want to go back to another day one AGAIN, if you want to put up that miserable unhappy guilty blog on our community saying you blew it because you had a few too many beers or glasses of wine - just DON'T.  If you can't limit yourself to only one - then don't drink at all.  Don't go to that party if you're tempted around a mass of smokers.  There will be other parties.  Other celebrations.  Because I can assure you the Nicodemon will be there waiting for you in force.  And until you're really secure in your quit - you are vulnerable.  Like a fledgling bird just learning to fly - you have to strengthen your wings, you have to learn how to feed yourself and fend off enemies.  That's you - the newbie.  You're just learning to sing your song of freedom.  Protect yourself.  Protect you quit this holiday weekend.  Please.  Not only for yourself, but for all of us who are rooting for you.

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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!