Hey Jacqui. Please don't give up on giving up! You are doing so well and I can give you a 100% guarantee that it does get easier. You are only 28 and you are giving yourself the best gift you can. Even if you have had a slip, just get back on the horse and start again.
Now, your mind is your most powerful weapon, if you choose to use it. Your brain is now screaming out for its drug of choice, nicotine. I remember you have young children so, try this. Every time you think of wanting a smoke, substitute a picture in your head of your children sitting in your lounge room with cigarettes in their hands, smoke curling up to the ceiling, looking at YOU Mum, cos that's where they learned it from. Then substitute in a picture of you all, healthy and smoke-free doing something as a family from all the money you have saved from not smoking. 50% of your tobacco money goes back to our government! Surely, they take enough from you with taxes, GST etc.
I hate the fact that they "pretend" to want us to stop, when in fact they take billions each year from tobacco!
There's so many reasons to stay quit Jacqui, and not many for starting up again, except that you have just set yourself up to crave another cigarette, and another and another. That craving will NEVER stop until you end it.
Kia kaha - remember you'll be on the beach soon (literally, since you live at Papamoa), feeling the wind rush into your lungs and loving life.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]9/23/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 57
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,425
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $684.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 5 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 56 [B]Seconds:[/B] 42
