I come here daily and read , my feelings and thinking of how best to add something that might help someone lay em down or alieve fear, or just comfort, jumps from thought to thought, I quite naturally want folks to feel as happy and peaceful as I do,, but at the same time I understand if they can't, or can't right away. I thought for years I couldn't quit cigarettes. What I finally realized is that I was afraid to quit. I believed every person whom had evertold me just how hard it would be,, believed it way back before I even considered quitting as a very young person, of course I thought my health would never faulter, the thinking of the young of course.But I remember older folks family and friends of family , my parents , grandparents, aunts uncles and their friends, talking of quitting and it was usually related to the absolutely hardest thing on earth you would ever do, and not only that, but that you would crave one day and night FOREVER!!! Well why would anyone even consider subjecting themselves to that?? Well I know we believe what we expeirence,, but sometimes we believe what we hear and in my case as many of us ,, we absolutely remember and believe these people when they said this, so when discussion of quitting cigarettes came around there was no chance of considering it because the answer was already there,, we couldn't do it so we kept smoking, and smoking and smoking.
When I realized it was that nobody had ever told these people any different and that's why it seemed hopeless I realized with help(Allen Carr) it was all a huge brainwashing, we convinced ourselves through remembering all these stories from others that we became afraid. I read Allen Carr's book "The Easy Way" and he tells us how to ease through all the brainwashing and change our way of thinking .
So I went about it as something that was easy. Was it?Yes and No. I knew it would take about3 days to get the drug out of my system. I knew it would be up to me and my attitude as to how well I did after that. But mostly i think it was that I decided I was going to quit and never faultered from that decision.
Anyway I have rambled again as usual. Give yourself credit for having the strength to control your own destiny and happiness each and every day.
This is James, "The Happy Quitter" I'm quit 294 days after being addicted to two packs a day for 36 years.
