Little lies and secrets .
Friends of addiction
How many times have you kept a secret about your smoking or vaping and lied someone that you were quitting smoking but gave the quit away . Did they say “ hey John “ , or “ hey Jane “ how’s the quit going and you replied “ oh great , I haven’t had a cigarette or vape in a week , I think I got this one “ but you were smoking full time again .
How many times did you say you quit and then when it got so hard and the craves were too much you decided you would smoke in secrecy just one ? Maybe you’ve always smoked in secrecy . No one would know the difference ( only you ). No one would be hurt , ( only you ) or you thought . No harm in one or two puffs and you believed the lie that just one or two would see you through . Truth is : Smoking is not an nrt to help you quit or see you through anything . It is why you are quitting. It is an an addiction . You can’t smoke what you don’t have, buy or borrow .
Maybe you are hiding from your kids so they won’t do as you are doing or it’s not allowed for this great job you are hoping for .
Truth : it’s so much better to be be smoke free and not have to hide anything . It only creates more anxiety , more fear , more stress , and not to mention guilt . No one like those things .
The way out is through ; the way out is none . Success is day won after day won , after day won , not day won followed by day one followed by a pack . Success in my opinion is not even measured in years quit. it’s just the fact and the truth that you don’t smoke day after day after day . We can all do this . It’s do / able .
I want to offer you something from my own personal experience . If you are holding on to lying for addiction or living in secrecy about something it will continue to use you and keep you hostage . Say good bye to addiction and goodbye to the lies that have held you hostage . Maybe you have not written your good bye letter with real sincerity . If you haven’t maybe you would like to do that now . I myself wrote two . My first letter I honestly was just going through the motion with words not my heart , then a year into my quit I wrote my last goodbye letter and I really meant it and I’ve never looked back since.
It is good bye for me .That chapter of my life lying or hiding in secrecy somewhere for a cigarette is closed . Funny how we know it’s wrong and don’t do it in other parts of our lives but we will do it for a cigarette . Lying for Big Tobacco and saying their cigarettes help my stress is closed too in my book . Smoking does not help stress , it’s a lie . A cigarette is nothing but ashes ! Truth be told , its ashes to ashes .They can doctor it up to taste good and look good and feel good but the truth is it’s still just nothing but ashes .
