Kelly
I know I don't have to tell you how important this time in space is for you. Your comments show that you are well aware of what you need to do. All you need now is to hold tight to your conviction and motivation. This takes practice, and as you practice this, you will gain more and more confidence in your ability to understand the addiction. It is in the understanding that smoking is never an answer to any of life's situations that we gain strength to abandon cigarettes.
Smoking is a way of shrinking back into ourselves, when we feel under seige, by the burdens of living in a complicatied and unpredictable world. There is nothing wrong with living within ourselves, after all it is within ourselves that we find the greatest strength to communicate and interact with the exterior world.
But hiding behind a haze of thin blue smoke does not make anything better for ourselves or for the people we love in this world. In fact over time, you will find that we have been not only hiding from the world in this manner, we have been attempting to hide from ourselves as well...How crazy is that...No matter where I go I have to take myself, so I better be comfortable with who and what that self is...Leaving smoking behind is more than putting an end to the use of a substance, it also has a lot to do with loving, understanding and in the end accepting who and what we are...
Keep moving forward, you are on a bright and wonderful road...
nonic
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]12/25/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 247
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 7,410
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,729.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 45 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 23 [B]Seconds:[/B] 5