“The point of no return is the point beyond which someone (...) must continue on their current course of action, either because turning back is physically impossible, or because to do so would be prohibitively expensive or dangerous. It is also used when the distance or effort required to get back would be greater than the remainder of the journey or task as yet undertaken.”
Have you reached your point of no return in your smoking life? If you’ve made a true deep commitment to quit, it happens the first day, that point of no return is Day One. If you haven’t made that commitment and still wiffle waffle in your mind, then it happens later. It may take a month for you to get to that point of no return, or 100 days, or your first year’s milestone. It’s not the same for all of us. Each journey is special and different and filled with...life happening. In all it’s ugliness and glory-filled beauty.
But there does come a time for each long term quitter when there IS a point of no return. When the distance and effort needed to start another Day 1 is greater than the remainder of the journey yet undertaken.
What is your point of no return? Are you there? What do you need to do to get there. What are you willing to do to achieve that? Are you willing to jettison your smoking thoughts, your smoking habits, your smoking dreams, your smoking lifestyle, your smoking triggers, you’re smoking “idea” of yourself?
The sooner you reach that imaginary point in your mind you will find your journey easier. And if you have not yet reached it, then you are not safe in your quit. And more work needs to be done. Which means more reading, more connection with those who support, and more interior analysis.
Stay focused everybody.
