HA! Well but I am gonna go again! HA! I remember very clearly my mother saying , "son you can make it easy or hard on yourself, it's up to you." Oh how that would make James the unhappy teenager mad! But it was so true
The same is true here I see peole just jump in jump on and I want to be at their house at their kitchen table and say " wait now we've got to study some or it'll be twice as hard."
A friend of mine was always trying to lose weight and she said her mother always said " Kim, ther are three things to be successful with a diet, the first is desire, then money, then the time to plan." Well lining everything up to quit smoking isn't too much different,, we had to have the desire to quit for sure, I mean a strong desire, the money is right opposite, you gain a litte in the beginning but probably not as much as later on because in the beginning you do the great big grocery run , you know about $ 117.00 worth of bags of baby carrots and sunflower seeds, and tooth picks and gum etc, etc,, that eventually calms down and you start to see a savings, well and then theres time, yse you need a little planning time and she meant time in the sense of preparing food so could apply to quitting also. She also concluded with, "But if you've got the desire, a strong desire, the other two will work themselves out.
Go to whyquit.com If you want to feel real foolish about not being able to quit sooner read Allen Carrs book The Easy Way.
Comgratulations to all milestones today and to all who made the DECISION to quit today.
This is James remaining happy , not missin a thang at 348 Nicotine/Smokefree Days after 2 packs or more for 36 years. THIS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE""" "THE HARDEST THING I'VE EVER DONE" "" It's entirely up to the indiviual.
Peace
