I haven't been around much lately. That seems to happen when you quit watching your quit meter and just live. Somehow I missed my 4 month quit date, a milestone at times I wasn't sure I would see.
I wish each one of you new members the strength to keep going with your quit. You will need strength, courage... all the important stuff. You will need to dig down deep and find your determination, and your free will.
Quitting isn't easy, and everyone tells you "You can do it". That isn't exactly true. Some of you won't do it. Not because you don't have it in you... But because you are looking for the "magic pill" or the "easy way out", and that does not exist.
Becoming an Ex will take work, but I promise you can do it. If you are ready to make an agreement with yourself that no matter what happens cigarettes will no longer be your crutch, You will be sucessful.
There are quite a few of us around here that are paying the ultimate price for our years of smoking. I wish you could go to each of our pages and read our stories. Don't think it "Can't happen to you".
We are your Mothers, Fathers, Aunts, Uncles, Daughters or Sons... Get the picture??!!!
We are REAL people who for the rest of our lives will suffer and struggle for each breath we take.
Cigarettes and Tobbaco is poison. I can't make it any plainer than that.
Hold onto your quits. When you have moments of weakness come here and read or blog. Ask for help and support. Realize that this won't be easy, but it is the best thing you can do for yourself.
Do whatever it takes to get through this. Take it minute by minute until you can take it hour by hour, then day by day. I promise the day will come when you will not be able to remember when you last thought of a cigarette, and That is a GREAT feeling.
