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Well, many of you Babes know that I'm a long-term, high volume smoker.
WAS, a long-term, high volume smoker.
I quit on Saturday. Now, to you non-smokers out there you may be thinking "five days, big deal", but you heavy smokers out there know that it *is* a VERY big deal.
All these years people have said all the right things, "it's not good for your health, you'll save money", you know the rap. None of that impacted me. Cigarettes were my companions. No way was I giving them up.
Then, a couple of years ago it occurred to me that I wasn't addicted to smoking, cigarettes owned my butt. They owned me.
I didn't like it, but it didn't stop me.
Then I heard about a book on another site, Allen Carr's "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking". I bought it, read most of it (skipped a couple of the middle chapters) read the last page, put the book down, my cigarette out and announced in my head I was done.
The difference is that the book helped me to realize that I wasn't giving up anything, instead, I was fighting tooth and nail, denying the cigarette monster in my belly his fix. I can fight. You KNOW I can fight. So that's what I've been doing. Every time I get the urge to light up, I know in my heart of hearts that it's the nicotine monster wanting to control me and make me give him his fix. If I give him one, he'll just want more.
So I haven't given him the one. No patches, no pills, no gum. No smokes.
sigh....
WAS, a long-term, high volume smoker.
I quit on Saturday. Now, to you non-smokers out there you may be thinking "five days, big deal", but you heavy smokers out there know that it *is* a VERY big deal.
All these years people have said all the right things, "it's not good for your health, you'll save money", you know the rap. None of that impacted me. Cigarettes were my companions. No way was I giving them up.
Then, a couple of years ago it occurred to me that I wasn't addicted to smoking, cigarettes owned my butt. They owned me.
I didn't like it, but it didn't stop me.
Then I heard about a book on another site, Allen Carr's "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking". I bought it, read most of it (skipped a couple of the middle chapters) read the last page, put the book down, my cigarette out and announced in my head I was done.
The difference is that the book helped me to realize that I wasn't giving up anything, instead, I was fighting tooth and nail, denying the cigarette monster in my belly his fix. I can fight. You KNOW I can fight. So that's what I've been doing. Every time I get the urge to light up, I know in my heart of hearts that it's the nicotine monster wanting to control me and make me give him his fix. If I give him one, he'll just want more.
So I haven't given him the one. No patches, no pills, no gum. No smokes.
sigh....