Start thinking of it as a positive thing.
Get excited!
Put a lilt in your step.....you never thought you could do this
but you CAN
DECIDE
this is the beginning!
I can tell you what a great feeling it is to see the changes in people after they quit.
It may begin as the fear of bad health but it can become the joy of doing something good for yourself.
It starts a chain reaction. The things you couldn't do? now you can do them, You've taken a mental weight off of your shoulders and you've removed a major limiter of your action. (your old inaction)
this is what can fuel a good quit. so you gotta keep the joy.
How do you do that?
well, we tend to replace one thing with another but the "another" doesn't have to be a negative thing.
choose good things to replace the time you spent smoking. make them things you enjoy.
you want a feeling of satisfaction and you can get it from a lot of things other than smoking.
invest yourself in something. art, music, running, walking, sewing, needlepoint, kayaking, skydiving, helping people...this whole feeling of loss will go away in time.
Hey! you may as well enjoy it!
