Hermaba I really did WANT to quit, I was tired of feeling like I was being judged by the world for my stupidity and that is exactly what I began to see smoking AS...serious stupidity. I knew that it was hurting me, I knew that I was wasting money and, more importantly, I was wasting my LIFE. I had to seriously reevaluate my priorities, I had to accept that quitting was a journey and that it would have to be one day at a time and maybe one minute at a time for a while. I had to be WILLING as JonesCarpeDiem points out. Willpower failed me many times in the past and I had to accept that if I learned everything I possibly could about nicotine addiction and I reached out to these successful quitters and LISTENED to them that I really COULD do this. I really COULD be an EX-smoker and I could, just maybe, help other people to become EX-smokers as well. I will not tell you that it was easy, it wasn't and I had some serious challenges along the way but I found that the really tough times were not the times when I was most challenged to smoke, those times were surrounded by so much chaos that I couldn't even THINK about taking the time to smoke. Smoking takes time...time to find a place where you CAN smoke, time to actually smoke, and then the time that it STEALS from you because it is taking time from your life, your life expectancy, your life with your family, your GOOD times as well as the hard ones. Please listen to all of the advice you have been given, do your "homework" and make your decision, Thomas3.20.2010 asked you a very real question...ARE you?
Ellen
