Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:43 am
Hi Mary:
Decided to share somethings with you about my process of quiting smoking cigs.
I didn't just up and quit one day out of the blue.
I had smoked for years. And for years I'd thought that I didn't want to.
I'd been "trying" to quit for 20 years. During those 20 years I'd gone to countless 'smoking cessation" classes and seminars. Once I paid $300 for a class and didn't quit for a single day.
Also I thew away many packages of cigs and cartons of cigs. Hopeing that would make me stop.
Oh yes, i knew all the dangers of smoking. And relatives didn't want me to smoke in their houses. So it was a very inconvenience to smoke.
I've stood out in the rain and smoked .
None of that made me quit.
Health reasons didn't make me quit.
I really thought that I couldn't. I thought it was too hard. I smoked so much that they tasted horrible after awhile. But I'd still light up. I was nervous and I imagined that it helped to hold that Cig.
SO I kept at it.
I got so I hated to go to church because I knew that my hair and clotes reeked of the smell of them.
I really didn't feel good. And they did cost money.
My curtains in my home reeked of the smell. My lamp shades did. Everything did.
And I'd caugh taking my trash out. I'd caugh at night.
One day I went somewhere. I came home and opened the door to my home to go in. The smell of stale tobacco smoke rushed out to meet me.
I was turned off by it. Really turned off.
I realized that I was very disgusted with it all.
At last I really wanted to be shed of that.
Not for my health. Not for my kids. But I wanted a fresh home to walk into . I really wanted to be free more than I wanted to smoke.
So I got back in the car and went for some of those patches. I threw the cigs away and this time it stuck.
Because I wanted to be free.
I remembered all those tips I'd heard in those stop smoking classes and I put them to use.
And I was so surprised to find out that although it was hard , it wasn't near as hard as I'd imagined it was going to be. Within 12 weeks I was feeling much better.
It has been over 12 years now.
I think that the material that Keithjoy was telling you about would probably be very helpful.
When you are trying to quit for your health it gets kind of scary. You are afraid you'll fail.
I think that it became easier for me when I finally just didn't want to do it anymore.
I tried for 20 years.
But when that day came that I couldn't stand being a slave to them anymore, then I had some success.
However, if I ever smoked another cig. I'd probably be hooked again.
And I don't think that I would last long either.
But I don't want to do it.
Anyway, I wish you success someday. Don't hate yourself when you slip up. Just pick yourself up and try again. It is worth it.
MJ
Decided to share somethings with you about my process of quiting smoking cigs.
I didn't just up and quit one day out of the blue.
I had smoked for years. And for years I'd thought that I didn't want to.
I'd been "trying" to quit for 20 years. During those 20 years I'd gone to countless 'smoking cessation" classes and seminars. Once I paid $300 for a class and didn't quit for a single day.
Also I thew away many packages of cigs and cartons of cigs. Hopeing that would make me stop.
Oh yes, i knew all the dangers of smoking. And relatives didn't want me to smoke in their houses. So it was a very inconvenience to smoke.
I've stood out in the rain and smoked .
None of that made me quit.
Health reasons didn't make me quit.
I really thought that I couldn't. I thought it was too hard. I smoked so much that they tasted horrible after awhile. But I'd still light up. I was nervous and I imagined that it helped to hold that Cig.
SO I kept at it.
I got so I hated to go to church because I knew that my hair and clotes reeked of the smell of them.
I really didn't feel good. And they did cost money.
My curtains in my home reeked of the smell. My lamp shades did. Everything did.
And I'd caugh taking my trash out. I'd caugh at night.
One day I went somewhere. I came home and opened the door to my home to go in. The smell of stale tobacco smoke rushed out to meet me.
I was turned off by it. Really turned off.
I realized that I was very disgusted with it all.
At last I really wanted to be shed of that.
Not for my health. Not for my kids. But I wanted a fresh home to walk into . I really wanted to be free more than I wanted to smoke.
So I got back in the car and went for some of those patches. I threw the cigs away and this time it stuck.
Because I wanted to be free.
I remembered all those tips I'd heard in those stop smoking classes and I put them to use.
And I was so surprised to find out that although it was hard , it wasn't near as hard as I'd imagined it was going to be. Within 12 weeks I was feeling much better.
It has been over 12 years now.
I think that the material that Keithjoy was telling you about would probably be very helpful.
When you are trying to quit for your health it gets kind of scary. You are afraid you'll fail.
I think that it became easier for me when I finally just didn't want to do it anymore.
I tried for 20 years.
But when that day came that I couldn't stand being a slave to them anymore, then I had some success.
However, if I ever smoked another cig. I'd probably be hooked again.
And I don't think that I would last long either.
But I don't want to do it.
Anyway, I wish you success someday. Don't hate yourself when you slip up. Just pick yourself up and try again. It is worth it.
MJ