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Repetitively nope

Maki
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Happiness is not easy ALL of the time . It's not just THINK positively it's DO positively too then you can THINK positively .

Sometimes we learn valuable things from things that bring us UNHAPPINESS such as smoking , such as death , such as crisis and circumstances .,

Smoking for example caused us fear to quit not happiness , smoking takes away loved ones far too early and leaves us grieving . Smoking can leave us financially struggling . 

Smoking can leave us discluded for endless amounts of time from events , celebrations and family gatherings. 

Smoking doesn't fix things , WE need to fix things .

Smoking leaves us with feeling empty but WE can fill the void through healthier alternatives . 

Nothing gets better EVER by smoking . It gets better by making a CHANGE in us that won't allow smoking to control our lives anymore . 

                           It's not hard it's nope repetitively , repetitively repetitively 

                           All we have to do is decide and do . 

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What was in our goal when we sought a quit site ? 

How can we ourselves make change within ourselves to become ex smokers permanently ! 

How can we change our belief system about smoking if we aren't willing to change , to learn , to accept help and support , study and do ? 

Its our responsibility to self first and foremost not to give in , but also a responsibility to others I would hope . 

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When it's our time , we WILL leave this earth , and we will leave smokers or not .

Do you want to die a smoker ?  That's a question I asked myself . 

I doubt any of us want that , although we've all likely said in the past  " if I'm going to die I'm going to die a happy smoker ". 

                          Really ? Smoking makes one happy ? Smoking makes one uncomfortable !
                          Did smoking change why you picked up your first cigarette ? 

You don't have to ever go back to day one , not you , not me . We can end the cycle of relapse , of slips and of smoking . 

We can choose to be an ex smoker each and every day forward and to be an ex smoker forever however long forever  may be . 

          

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Maki 

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About the Author
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 .