dont let it go this far!!! PLEASE!

For some of us, smoking (and not the addiction) is reality. Smoking was a relaxor for me. I new about the addiction but always thought I could handel it when I was ready. Well, "ready" came and went. I was more addicted than I thought and when it started to effect my health, I realized that the addiction was real and it was not going to be easy to fight it. As the years went by I seen family members become very ill from smoking and some of them even died a horrific death including my mother. I sat at her bedside and literally watched rust colored blood seep from her lips. Alway thinking to myself that she was just unlucky and that this could never happen to me. I was scared out of my skin. Well, I did make the connection. I was not going to let my kids watch me die a horrible death, no way! My whole life changed the day she expired. My wants changed, my attitude and even my through process was affected. The thought of seeing her lay in that coffin was terrifying to me. To watch my 5 older brothers weep and weep. To watch my father hug her in the coffin was a reality check for me. I watched the one most important person in my life lay ther helplessly knowing that I could not do one thing to bring her back. So yes, I was scared, scared enough to begin my journey into a life without nicotine. It took me several quits and a few years befor I finally put an end to these killers. But it took that January day to make me realize that I had to make changes no matter how long it took. My story was in now way a negative response. It sums up a very important meaning. You can say that the iddiction is more important than the will to live, but you cant hide the fact if the will gets the best of you, the outcome will be death. There is no other way to say it. It is a fact, not an intuition. So, I will say it again, should anyone think that they are losing there quit, perhaps you should re-think your quit. This is real folks, it is not fiction. this is what will happen. The encourgment, to quit tools, the forums are all there to help us. This is all fine and dandy. These tools that we have been provided with is a wonderful thing. But we must not forget what the ultimate outcome will be, weather it is in 5 years, or 1 year. We must look at it from many stand points, not just o

dont let it go this far!!! PLEASE!

Sorry, but Iam on a roll. Persuading someone to quit is one thing, but to live through an event that is like something out of a horror movie is another. We all have a story that we just cant get out of our head and yes, we do tend to put it in the back of our heads and forget it. That is, forget it until it happens to us. Then thats picture or story becomes reality. Then it becomes foremost. Then what do we do? Do we feel sorry for ourselves? We certainly cant change it by that time, can we? No, we have to prepare NOW! Before that happens, we have to DO MANY THINGS TO PREVENT what we dont want to happen. The images and the storys and the events of other people must play an important roll on our quits as well as our thinking and ultimatly our outcome. If you take a bad picture that is a real picture and is reality and put yourself into that situation, what will you do? You are more afraid to think about it than to act on it. That is the addiction and that is where you must re-train your brain! This quit is nothing more than re-training your brain and the structures that control the crave. It must be re-trained in the same way that we trained it when we first sucked on that filter. But the fact will always be, if we dont re-train our brains, then we will be put in a position where the pictures and the story will be reality. The pictures and storys of death and emotional break down will be a fact. It can not be helped, its part of the big picture. The smoker and the quiter must look at those images and they must realize that those images are in fact real. We have to understand that the addiction gets in the way of those images and storys. If we retrain our brains to except thoes images, then we can and will succeed. Why? because we have the ability to re-train the structures in our brain that blocks out our lessens our thinking. Iamges of my mother helped me tremendously, but not in the bigining. It was after I spent a long time re-thinking and re-training my thoughts. Thats when it hit me. So in all actually, it is nothing but a mind game and how we created the images and storys to be less important. Thanks for reading. Jaset [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 142 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,856 [B]Amou

Problems sleeping and strange dreams

Enjoy the strange dreems!!! Be thankfull you are still dreaming! Jaset [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 126 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,535 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $693 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 19 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 6 [B]Seconds:[/B] 19

Problems sleeping and strange dreams

Enjoy the strange dreems!!! Be thankfull you are still dreaming! Jaset [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 126 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,535 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $693 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 19 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 6 [B]Seconds:[/B] 21

Time to move on, I have been here way to long, cutting it close.

Hello Marie, I did not miss my 100th. I was on sabbatical. But thanks for asking. Still smoke free, still mad as hell! lol. Missed talking to you all! Jaset [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 126 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,535 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $693 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 19 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 5 [B]Seconds:[/B] 26

Thank you

Hola!! How are you Marie? Isent life grand without the cigs? Ahhh, breath deep my friend. Keep strong. Avoid the stress! Jaset [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 126 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,535 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $693 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 19 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 6 [B]Seconds:[/B] 58

The Road

hello sticken to it, I have not seen u lurking around in a while. impressive meter! Jaset [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 296 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 5,920 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,628.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 45 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 33 [B]Seconds:[/B] 37

Dont you people get it!!

Hello people, Let me reintroduce myselfe if I may. My name is Jaset, been without a smoke for a long time now. Not quite a year, but almost. I was a 1 to 2 pack a day smoker for close to 30 years. Went through hell and back many times, always losing in the end. That is, until I stumbled across this site. Since then, I have won my battle with nicotine. I even lost 60 lbs since my last post. Well, my live IS GREAT! I feel fantastic and my kids are so proud of what I had done. It was no picnic, no easy way out, just determination and honesty. But if I can do it, u all can do it. When you get as far as I did, your cravings will be 99.9% gone. You will not even think of smoking. The best part of it all is you will feel so good like you did before you decided to become an idiot like me. Your whole life will change, your attitude about smoking will never be what it was, you will feel like someone that has no medical worries. You no longer will say to yourself, "I wonder if I will get lunge cancer". Because you just dont think about it. So to you all, keep your attitude positive. This site is the best place for us all. Good luck to you all. Jaest [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 296 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 5,920 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,628.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 45 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 38 [B]Seconds:[/B] 10

Dont you people get it!!

Hello Danielle, Good to see your words again. I missed you all. Things are going so well, its hard to believe. What a difference you all made in my life. Its easy now, no more crap in my body and i am finally treating it with care and respect. Only wish it was sooner. Oh well, took this long to realize that it just wasent worth it. So thanks for all your help along the way. I can only hope that i made a difference in someone elses life. Jaset [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 296 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 5,920 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,628.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 45 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 19 [B]Seconds:[/B] 50

Quit now or be left out to dry!

John, LOL, Nice post. Screw the weight gain. That can be curved with some effort. Its the dam smoking that will get ya in the end IF NOT SOONER! Na, I dont buy it. Ask yourself whats harder, quiting smoking, or taking off 30,40 pounds? Its a no brainer. Besides, its harder to treat lung cancer, heart problems, mouth cancer and so on, than it is to treat obesity. Hell, I went through the worst time of my life with this quit. Nothing in my life was harder, nothing. But with some ba..s and some willpower and with help, anyone can do it. As for the extra pounds, well, use that as a tool for ur quit. I mean that. Who cares about some extra fat when you have a fight of your life on your hands already? Na, eat the big mac whem you have an attack, better than the needle in the lung for the biopsy.. Keep on trucking my friend! Jaset [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 296 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 5,920 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,628.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 45 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 22 [B]Seconds:[/B] 54