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No one is better qualified than you .

Maki
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Slipped up too much ?  I believe it's because we are living in the past ; living by past mistakes , past hurts , past failures, resentment , grief , whatever we used smoking for to mask and cover up our pain .  ( are you the emotional smoker ?  ) 

If one is told over and over again that they are "not too smart " they are "way too fat "  or they will " never succeed " you may start to believe that . That's why we need support , we need to hear we can do this .

It's amazing isn't it how people can be so easily convinced both negatively and positively .

Big Ts tactics were mainly by advertisements created by using psychology to seduce you to smoke . They used the five senses . Touch , smell , taste , sight , and hearing  . People are always attracted to the positive and driven to find it .

Big T fed our feel good brain receptors by words (speech) even before we lit the first cigarette that got us hooked to them . 

My thought for you today is to think about is what lie have you believed about yourself and about cigarettes .  How have you been influenced by others perception of you to believe you can't quit or perhaps someone has inflenced you by what they've said that keeps you quit .  

The answer to this could be you have believed your own lies . 

How does the negative feel ?  If the memory hurts , it's a lie . Think positively . What you tell yourself when you are quitting smoking can be the missing link you have been looking for in every support group .  It is the support you've been looking to nurture yourself and take care of yourself . 

Have you been on a fine line ?  __________  Will you take one step forward to success or take one step backward to smoking? Maybe you are just standing there waiting for the push from others , trusting others , instead of trusting yourself .  We can't make the decisions for you .

No one is better qualified to make the choice but you .  Will you be your best friend or your worst enemy ? Do you want the positive or the negative outcome in your quit today ? Do what you think you can't . 

The cigarette has no power when you understand you don't smoke anymore . 

Your quit can be easy .  

Maki 

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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 .