I can still remember the last few days before my quit. I was not a member of Ex yet, but I had done some reading and research online about what smoking does to your body, and more specifically what it does to your brain. When I read how nicotine hijacked my brain I was horrified! I had no idea that was what was going on. From that time on, with every drag I was asking questions like what are you doing to yourself? and why are you still doing this? Why was I giving control of my brain to a stick? My quit began a few days after that, and every time I was tempted to smoke the same questions came back into my mind. Once we know what cigs are doing to our brain, we can't pretend we don't get it anymore. Keep reading, keep writing blogs, and keep asking questions. There is no luck involved in a quit, it is education, preparation, and willingness to change our thinking, and change our lives.
