Typos!
Thanks Lee,
Nice present you've given us. A smile for lunchtime in my case.
A little related story:
I was sitting on the neighbor's deck last night discussing some of this same stuff - the constant need to feed - finding 'allowable' times & places - The before and after workout tobacco dose, two on the way to and from the Grocery store ...etc. with a friend who quit for 7 months last year but made the mistake of again looking for an answer to 'problems' in one of those paper tubes of lies on New Years Eve. I saw her do it. I told her right there that was a dangerous move. She said she could handle it. Well she was wrong. She was back to a pack+ a day within the week. She has tole me she feels discouraged & powerless. I told her she has the power and no nicotine is the key. Since then our common next door neighbor has stayed quit (yay Karen now 5 Months!) and another neighbor Debbie quit three weeks ago and is doing great. image
Until last night she was the last smoker in our group. Today she's getting clean and free. When Em walked home she gave us her last remaining dose and asked us to destroy it. I encouraged her to read here as much as time allows this time. She has so many good reasons to stay clean and free and no good ones other than a fear of failure to continue. She has been amazing in losing more than 40 pounds in the last 6 months. I hope she reads this today and knows that she too can be as free as she decides to be. No longer needing to build her life around her next dose. She simply needs to get clean of the 'landslide' of nicotine usage and choose to NTAP.
My next door neighbor (a never smoker) of 10+ years remarked during our dicussion that he could not picture me as a smoker any longer. To him I've become a non-smoker. What a compliment! I know I'll always be an ex-smoker and recovering nicotine addict but his personal image of me surely makes my decision all the better.image
To stay free from nicotine
we simply need to stay free of nicotine.
Here's another Fleetwood Mac (this one is by Christine McVie) song that has fitting lyrics to help guide our quitting journey:
For Em on Day One of the Rest and Best of her Life! image
If you wake up and don't want to smile
If it takes just a little while
Open your eyes and look at the day
You'll see things in a different way
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop, it'll soon be here
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone
Why not think about times to come
And not about the things that you've done
If your life was bad to you
Just think what tomorrow will do
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop, it'll soon be here
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone
All I want is to see you smile
If it takes just a little while
I know you don't believe that it's true
I never meant any harm to you
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop, it'll soon be here
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone
Don't you look back
Don't you look back

Joe J Free 28 Months