This smoking deal is by degrees no different than drinking. And my reaction, waking up to it, has been about the same (by degrees) as drinking. All hell broke loose. Powerdrive against it with all my might, when exact opposite is what I need. Only this time around, I am now recognizing that I have some tools this program has given me. Instead of something I have done most my life becoming a sudden end of the world big problem, I have an opportunity to watch the program work in my life. This approach I believe has done much to restore me to sanity.(hehehe) I never have a problem but what it's not a problem with my perspective. And the gift of serendipity I find when I look turns every experience into a gold mine. For the first time also, I find a dynamic at work I have never clearly understood for myself. It blows me away. Addiction, compulsions, rule over my free will. That's why it takes God's help to overcome. We were made as whole people with a whole relationship.
---- So anything lacking in my relationship with God, is as sure as the law of gravity, given over to something else.----
Another 'god'.
I could go on writing here, but many words and I may un-understand what I thought I understood, but not as I ought too.
using AA helped me quit! Along with Nic. patches and Mytimetoquit.com
Smoked for 20 yrs, quit uuhhhh, I think it's been 3 months now. I feel wonderful! Breathe so much better, food taste so much better, I sleep better and it's awesome not being chained to a cigarette! I did find I had to change my routines and even gave up de-caff coffee, just wasn't the same!
If I can do it, anyone can!
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mytimetoquit.com ehh? I'm going to have to check that out myself. It's been 37 years for me, but I'm down to less than half a pack a day. Sometimes only about 4 or 5. The withdrawel at that level shouldn't be too bad but it's the psychological addiction more than the physical to me, I think. I may just give it a go. SWMBO doesn't drink or smoke and I feel bad giving her a kiss with nicotine breath even though she doesn't mind at all (so she says). She would like to see me quit so I will stay around a bit longer. A good incentive for me. I'd say that if you could do it after that many years Jen that the addiction has to be about the same for me. And Ryan...I'm going to wish you all the willpower in the world and beyond in your quest for a nicotine-free body and mind. Good fortune...it's the right thing to do!!!!...Tim
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