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Choose life or choose death sticks

Maki
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My best wishes to the up and coming smokers quitting . You will do it !  You can quit ; you are making the right decision . Doubt and fear or belief and trust . Do what feels good . Have faith in your ability .

If you have just a mustard seed of hope or hope only the size of the eye of a needle or just a speck you can and will get through .

The things you lack will grow .

But .... No confidence ? Refuse a dozen or so cigarettes and watch that confidence bloom  . You just need willingness to educate yourself about addiction and discernment . Goal thinking ( to be free ) and addict thinking ( to be controlled by ) The more you read , participate and ask questions the easier it is to understand addiction .  

Most think you need willpower to quit . It's not a battle of strength . It's the willingness to choose not to smoke and accept that whatever comes along you can overcome it as an Ex smoker . Power is a battlefield of the mind , acceptance is surrendering yourself and feeling internal peace of mind. Surrender !  

Some things in life we have no choice over . They are natural disasters but we do have control over the choices and decisions we need to quit .

Many think smoking is what keeps them in control but it's quite the opposite ..smoking  is controlling you . You have the power to choose and to make the right decision . Refuse to lose ! Refuse to smoke , refuse the bait . Choose life or choose death sticks . 

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Smoker of 28 years . COPD recipient . My biggest help to quit was reading other successful quitters testimony as well as other quitters who would not give up and kept coming back determined to win . Also , some really hard work and helping others . I’ll have a thirteen years quit June 30 , 2024 . Biggest lesson learned : I learned that the “Just one” lesson is the key to everyone’s quit . Having “ none” not one puff , is the easy way to quit smoking . Post for help if it gets hard and before you have to own up to giving your quit away because if you do your quit can be saved . After the fact starts day one all over .I can’t tell you enough how worth it that is . Quit tools : Made use of my strengths and improved upon my weaknesses . Quit benefits , more time with my family , better quality of life , better self image . How I kept the quit : one day at a time , one step at a time . I told myself like a broken record : “ Don’t smoke ; Do something different “ then literally went and did something different other than smoking “ . Quitting is not complicated .It is really simply one word ( not one puff ever ) or nope , however , it will be the process of self discovery in this journey as you figure out things for yourself that can complicate things . How long will that be ? Well we are all different and we come from different backgrounds and smoked for different reasons so no one can really tell you when it will get easier for you only that it will . Be patient with yourself . Who cares how long it takes anyway because we all came to quit forever . This quit is for life , your life , so embrace it , welcome it , it’s the best thing you will ever do for yourself . The money you save get a bucket list of little rewards and big ones and do them . Change the things you can . Life is worth living . This gets easier , oh my gosh , so much much easier . Give it a season , give it two and you’ll never want to let go of your quit I promise you that . It’s wonderful , absolutely wonderful to be free . Quitting btw was the hardest thing I’ve ever done just like everyone here . I shed buckets of tears for weeks , yelled into a pillow , stuck my head into a cold bucket of water and paced aimlessly in head fog . Was it worth it , every bit of it ! Biggest improvement : , my health , the relationship with my family ( all non smokers thank goodness ) and finances . When I started 2011. I was walking three blocks with the use of inhalers for copd . Latest accomplishment : still on the inhalers no further advancement of copd . June 1 2023. Did my first 10 k . Next goal is my second 10k by the end of 2024 . I’m 68 years years young and I’m an Ex smoker . I was able to take three trips ( out of country ) with my family because I quit smoking . Time I never would have had had I not quit . Money from quitting paid for them . I want to say you are in control , take your power back from cigarettes from vaping or any addiction you might have . Life awaits you , don’t let it pass you by . Make the decision to stop and one day that light will shine upon you and make you a whole new you . Thank you to Quitnet members and Ex members for the support and encouragement to quit and stay quit . That along with my desire never to smoke again has given me a life long successful quit . No turning back , ever .