Actions Matter!

[Thomas3.20.2010]

Ever feel like slugging somebody? OK Ladies, maybe not actually hit somebody but tell them off?

Did you do it? You may have decided that you choose not to live with the consequences!

Same thing with Quitting Smoking!

Just because you feel like smoking does not mean that you forfeit your choice! You can be compelled - mightily and still decide to not smoke!

Nothing and nobody can make you smoke - EXcept YOU! Do you really like the consequences?

N.O.P.E.!

[elvan]

Hey, I have felt like slugging somebody...never did it but sure FELT like it.  I don't fight craves, I let them come and go and they have lost their power.  

You are so right that we are the only ones who make the decision to smoke.

[TerrieQuit]

Felt like it several times, both the slugging and the smoking. But, today I realize I have a choice! Thanks for the reminder, Thomas!

I Won't Quit on my Quit!

[NewMe]

Yup, there have been times I have felt like slugging someone, but I never have. Good to remind us the same option is available when thinking of smoking. A little self-restraint goes a long way. NOPE.

[MarilynH]

I never thought about slugging anyone but I have felt like ripping people's faces off but I didn't do it and those thoughts were in the first few weeks of my quit and I made it through without hurting anyone and I never smoked because S.I.N.A.O - because smoking wasn't an optiontthen and sure isn't an option now or ever, thanks Thomas. 

[allisonbmorgan]

Great analogy!  Thank you!

[Dotgirl_1-28-16]

Just say NO

[froguelady]

I have wanted to slug one or two but I didn't. I made the choice to not hit someone just as I make the choice each day not to smoke. It all comes down to making a choice.

[JonesCarpeDiem]

everyone but you Thomas.

[Daniela2016]

Oh,see, I never wanted to hurt anyone during my first 2 weeks, but I was such a crybaby and that I could do with no legal consequences!!! I cried, and cried, and cried, and no one came near me...I think I was crying out my stupidity for not making a choice sooner.  

Every single day I find reasons to be happy I quit: my son is getting married in Boston, on a yacht, only 50 people, you think I would have found a hole to hide and smoke one?After that I travel overseas, 7 1/2 h to Munich...I am also thinking looking for another job, going back to my first love, probably a children's hospital,  smoking always held me back from applying in similar places...

thank you for the not funny analogy, but so true ☝

Daniela

[KMC56]

Great analogy!