Final Stages of the Journey
I hope that this note will strike a chord with you and reinforce what you all know, there is this light, the light at the end of the tunnel, waiting with open arms to greet you.
On your journey, keep in mind that the goal is to get you to begin to feel free and you do this one step at a time, hour by hour at first, then day by day, and later week by week and so on. Remember not to reach for that cigarette because it is too difficult to quit over and over again. Just say no for the time, each time and it will gradually fade from your memory. This post from day�s past:
I am at the point in my quit, some 230 days, that the act of smoking has become a distance memory. To forget the memories of smoking is what I consider part of the quit goals, not to forget that I once smoked.
With the fading of the memories there goes the fading of those triggers and normalcy is instilled. I know, I don�t need or want to smoke. My last serious urge came around my fifth month of quit, a trigger came out of nowhere and I had to stop what I was doing and take up another activity.
I�m not feeling any urges anymore at all and haven�t for a couple of months. Today I am a non-smoker, and wonder why I didn�t quit so much earlier. If you stay with the program you will be happy, self confident, and a healthier individual. I am glad that you came to this site. It shows that you have the desire, and with that desire come hope, and that yes, yes, it can be done. Look around you here; how can so many succeed. It is their will to succeed, their can do, want to, will do positive attitude and actions.
Good luck to all of you on your journey. Think positive and the quit will be yours!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/22/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 494
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 8,892
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2,717.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 90 [B]Hrs:[/B] 5 [B]Mins:[/B] 1 [B]Seconds:[/B] 0
