I am reposting this blog post I wrote almost 5 months ago for all the newbies I see on here struggling in their early quits. I hope this helps them realize how cigarettes had enslaved them and I hope this helps them through the coming days.
"When reading Dale's blog posting about NML (no mans land) and considering how my life used to be as a smoker compared to how it is now and how I want my future to be, it occured to me that I was a lot like the creature Gollum from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
The only difference is my "precious" was cigarettes and not a gold ring. Just like Gollum obsessed over the ring, my life revolved around smoking, I was a shell of my former self (I think, because I couldn't even recognize my former self), and my health and life were fading away. And just like Gollum I was afraid to be too far away from "my precious" and would get angry when separated from it. My precious cigarettes took priority over just about everything in my life. Even as they were taking my life away. Just like Gollum. Just something to consider before you think of picking one up again.
The saying that was engraved inside the ring Gollum was so obssessed with was :
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
The cigarette will bind us forever in darkness."
