Day One

[sue5]

First I want to say to everyone here, this is something that helped me I have to tell the truth I took chantix and do believe I just had the snot scart out of me. This helped me and I just want to share it with you.
ONLY ON DAY ONE
Author Unknown

So many times people say that they're on day one and it's an understated, quiet, anti-climatic humble statement. They seem almost apologetic to the crowd. They are only on day one, how insignificant.

Well, let me tell you something ... Day one is the most important day of the entire quit! Without Day One, there is no quit!

It's absolutely the MOST important day! And it should be shouted from the rooftops! It should be heralded with trumpets blaring! Day One is cause for greater celebration than Day 100!

Oh, Day 100 is wonderful. Success is stamped all over Day 100, but without Day One, there is no Day 100. Without Day One there is nothing.

So here is to Day One and all those who were brave enough to enter it and embrace it and allow it to be their reality. Congratulations to you for being willing to enter Hell Week!

I see Hell Week as a challenging, long, suffering, miserable week and here these people are ... Ready - Willing - And Able to walk up to it and say "I'm here!"

Without that, you have no quit. Without that willingness to walk up to Hell Week and offer yourself like some sacrificial lamb on a rock slab, you have nothing. You are the bravest of any day, on Day One! You are the most challenged on Day One. That is the hardest day of the entire quit. Because that is the day that you took your whole world and did the impossible. You turned it around 180 degrees! You turned night into day. You made the sun into the moon. You took everything that seemed normal and right and tossed it into the wind and said "give me abnormal and wrong!"

Ever since Day One, I have been inviting abnormal and wrong into my life. And I have never felt so alive in all of my days on this earth.

If I could do it all over again, I would jump into Day One screaming and cheering with banners and ribbons flowing from my arms. And I would wear a big hat that proudly stated "DAY ONE" on it! Because something happened that I never bargained for. Facing the fear and allowing Day One to enter my life was the first of many more wonderful challenges. And it was as if somebody handed me a key (a master key!) and said "Here, this opens more doors, discover yourself!"

Welcome to Hell. It is the most wonderful place! Because past this lies Freedom. I'd walk this walk 100 more times if I had to. It's that beautiful.

Great job, keep up the good work!

[Sylvia_Deitz]

Oh, Sue! I loved this! I never looked at it quite like that before, but it is just so true! Yes, that's just what it is...."like a sacrificial lamb". On my first day, I pictured it as....Look at Jesus and what he did for me. He sacrificed Himself for us by dying that horrible death, so if he could do that for me, couldn't I do this for Him? However you look at that first day, it sure is a sacrifice and lamb to the slaughter, but as you said, "IF I could do it all over again, I'd jump into Day One screamming and cheering." because it's like birth pains. After you've been quit for a few months, you forget all the pain and are just so glad to feel so good! Thank you for sharing this!

[sue5]

Sylvia thank you!!! I have many things saved that helped me and is it wrong that just maybe some of these might help someone else. You know I read and if it was only one thing from a sentence that I learnt I felt so blessed. So I guess is would it be bad to post other things that helped me, could it help just one or two people. Guess what I'm asking is it ok to post this kind of stuff.

KTQ Sue

[pat3]

I am on day one. It is 7:34pm. I had by last cancer stick at 6:00 or so. I don't remember the exact time. It's funny, about 20 minutes ago I got that feeling you get when you want a cancer stick, and then I laughed at myself and said, hey, you don't do that anymore. I said Oh yeah, duh. I am not really giving up cigarettes- I am giving up my drug addiction. Cigarettes used to be my friend- having a cigarette doesn't sound bad does it. Can you image excusing yourself from dinner saying " I'll be right back" I have to have but some drugs in my body. One of your friends says " Oh what medication are you on?" You say, oh no, it's not prescribed, I hate taking medicine, it's not like I'm sick or anything. I just have to go do this drug that kills me slowly. It may not kill me at all, on the other hand. I just really like taking that chance. Sarcastic isn't it. That's what smokers do everytime they smoke.

[Sylvia_Deitz]

Yes, Pat...I know what you're saying. The whole 50 years I smoked, I was taking lots of supplements thinking I was safe from the smoking. I wouldn't take a prescription unless I was dying. I thought I was doing my body good, but all along I was killing myself slowly with my addiction. How dumb could I have been? I never really looked at smoking in the right sense until I came to this site and WhyQuit.com. I learned so much about my addiction, so I know I'll never go back to smoking.

[sue5]

Pat,
First let me say I am so proud of you!!!!!! I'm glad to here that you are talking to yourself and continue that I do believe we have to talk back to nic. Because I honestly have to say I still do some times. It will pop into my head wow a cig sounds good and I'm like what I don't smoke. It leaves even in the beginning when I quit I would get that craving at times but I had to stop myself and had to ask myself what it was that I really wanted lol what I realized was I just needed to take a break or I was hungry or what ever.It really wasn't that cig. even to this day when it pops in my mind I still ask myself stop Sue and think what is it you really want, it's something totally something else but we didn't know different all the years smoked. I was really surprised to learn that after I quit.
Keep up the good work, I'm really proud of you
Sue