Certainly one of my greatest regrets is that I smoked my life away in a certain sense and if there is anything I could say to anybody willing to listen is that whatever you do don’t smoke !!
I came to the conclusion that I didn’t actually smoked, the cigarette did all the smoking I was just the sucker on the other side receiving all the chemicals and poisons.
I have been lucky that I could recover from that although only for almost six months now and being able to stop.
Quitting is an unsettling experience. I may feels like someone dropped a bomb on your life. Hawkins said that fortunately there is more than one way to quit smoking..The catch is you must choose wisely to become smoke free...
I believed there is only one motivation and that is the desire to quit and stay quit. The key is focusing on the positive, No reason or principle contain it or stands against it.
I believe that one drag will reopen the still very raw pathways of nicotine and dopamine and send me right back into addiction and that believe helps me on my mission to remain smoke free.
NOPE forever.........
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I've been thinking that a health scare must make it a little easier to reach the decision to give up cigarettes. However I didn't want to wait until I reached that point!
In the past I've had contact with people who've been fighting other addictions such as alcohol and drink, some of them have been clean for years and yet that addiction remains it seems, always lurking in the depths of the mind. And one must forever be aware of triggers in order to remain in control.
Maybe it's the nicotine or any one of the other toxins we've polluted our body and mind with.
For myself I believe I'll remain a smoker for the rest of my life. Except I won't smoke.
Same goes for alcoholics and drug addicts. Even recovered anorexics continue to battle with that addiction to control. Maybe we've altered something in our brains.
But as you say Hercu, the motivation and desire to stay cigarette free must be there.
You sound like a very positive and strong willed person and I'm sure you'll never go back to cigarettes because you don't want to!
I too firmly believe I am still smoke free is due to focusing on the positives as there so many when you quit, I also believe you have to very focused and determined throughout your quit and around positive people. As you have posted numerous times, research is key too! Thanks for the post!
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