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There is no quick fix

crazymama_Lori
2 10 15

Scrolling through Facebook this morning, there's all kinds of ads for these quit quick schemes.  Years ago there were these get rich quick schemes.  Anything to spark the greediness of society.  Whatever happened to the days of hard work, commitment and intestinal fortitude (I love that word).  As you remember those get rich quick schemes didn't last very long and were the biggest ripoff in history.  They have so many new things on the market now with these strips that you put on your tongue, drops and concoctions that you are supposed to mix.

But I will let you know right here and right now, there is no quick way to quit smoking.  There is no pill on this earth that will take away the urge to smoke.  What will take away your urge to smoke is right between your ears.  Now, I will speak in my experience, cold turkey did not work for me.  I tried it many times and literally crawled the walls.  I knew I needed an aid to help me get over that extremely rough period of about 30 days.  Some it takes 2 to 3 weeks, but the late bloomer that I am, mine was 30.  But I did not see that aid as an answer.  It was simply something I was using to get over the hump.  I knew that the rest of it was just between my ears.  I had to want to quit smoking.  I had to commit to quit smoking.  Nothing on this earth will make me quit smoking.  Mylanta, if there was, I would have bought it a long time ago.

So in conclusion, there is no product out there that will magically take the urge away.  There is nothing out there that will suddenly make you forget why you smoked.  You have to figure out why.   But it doesn't only end there.  You have to figure out the answer to that why, a solution to that why, a replacement for that why.  That quick fix that you're looking for resides in you and you only...............

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Never be afraid or embarrassed about your "smoking thoughts" while quitting, they're there to remind us how strong we truly can be. Always remember, you will always WANT to smoke, but you have to CHOOSE not to. We can't break the ties that bind us without first changing the cycle that created it.