Serial quitter

Hi Evergreen. You probably know then that nicotine is out of the body for the most part in 3 or 4 days which you keep reintroducing. The cycle of course starts again. Everyone thinks that is the hard part, but nicotine withdrawal really is barely perceptible. It is the mind, the habit, the psychological "need" to have our "friend" our "security blanket".

I really do think that we should take time with our last cigarettes before quitting to say a parting farewell, not to a dear friend but to our keeper.

Taste them. Smell them. Think of their destructiveness. Think of the cost. Perhaps keep a chart of why you are smoking. Are you hungry, bored, upset, happy? Every cigarette we smoke is needed as a precursor for the next one. When we decide that we have had "Enough" we can break the cycle.

So to my way of thinking, one has to first WANT to quit. Not wish or hope, but make up their minds that they Want to do it for themselves.

Secondly, they have to believe that they can, and we all thought we couldn't. We who quit are proof that it can be done, so how can you argue that?

I admire those who don't quite get there and keep trying because they will get there if they stick with us. Many slip but find the belief in themselves. You are one of these, and you will succeed if you stop fearing the journey, or fearing that you will fail. Embrace it for the best thing you will ever do for yourself. Each time is a new one, the others were practice and lessons.

Start seeing the cigarette as something you want to be free of.

There are so many reasons..........

It can be easy to quit smoking once your mind accepts it.