From: Joel. Sent: 2/14/2003 9:50 AM
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I see Frank is celebrating his three-month anniversary being smoke free. I thought it would be a good time to bring up his original string here. Frank discussed in his three-month post today how it was pretty hard for quite a while and now how comfort finally starting to set in. I am pretty sure the day Frank started posting I started bringing up quite a few posts addressing how that when I have people who are in recovery from other addictions that they often have a harder time than "average." They are not only trying to break free from a primary addiction, they are often trying to break free from the crutch used in another addiction. While they often have a harder time, they are usually more successful at quitting for they in deed understand the concept and the laws of addiction. If not they would not be in recovery from their other drug of choice but rather they would be very actively using.

I am mentioning this here for a two-fold purpose. One is to acknowledge how happy I am to see Frank still around and reading and now posting. I am glad when I find out anyone is still around reading whether they are posting or not. I also want to make it clear that even people who by other life circumstances may have a harder time in quitting, that they can still be successful and eventually reach states of comfort that they may never have believed were going to happen for themselves.

Thanks Frank for showing others that there is life after smoking and that there is continued recovery after smoking. As was done in your original string here, you helped give us all a lesson in drug addiction. The lesson you have shared is that no matter how much a person may believe that he or she can never overcome an addiction, that quitting is possible and long-term success is achievable as long as you always remember what you are fighting and remember that to win the fight is as easy as just always knowing to never take another puff!

Joel


Just to show, most eveything you could ever think to worry about, conjecture, opine or write about has been covered at some time by someone on this path of nicotine addiction cessation and recovery we all share. That's why I always liken the 'archives' as theLibrary of the The Freedom Classroom. This learning experience is very much a self-directed course of study. If you have a question take the time to do some research. Many times the search yields unexpected treasure and revelations.

For it is in the doing for ourselves that we actually learn.

JoeJ Free - NicotineFree and Living as I was meant to be for One Year, Eleven Months, Thirty Days, 23 Hours and 53 Minutes, while reclaiming 63 Days and 8 Hoursimage, by choosing not to use 18250 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $3,714.68. NTAP!