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Knight C. 12 QTips For the Newbies !!!
Good advice from a man across the time zones. @Knight C. , Thank you Knight Cyberian. Thank you for being here. He Quit Quit date: 6/15/2006
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12 QTips For the Newbies !!! #1. QFears: We think we will quit smoking tomorrow. Perhaps the day after or sometime later. We hesitate with what we have got, now. We want to wait for a famous book or a miracle drug which we hope will make us stronger to quit later. We worry about our sanity, relationships or our work. We think we might fail and so we prefer to wait till later.
#2. QActions: No! Please do not! Go, go, go, get up and charge straight ahead. Now! Let all know we have arisen! We never were any pushovers. Get up and be counted. Dare, to do, just this once! We were born as a fighter. Everything we have done, till date, is to fight. Let`s go then now and fight, as only we can, this time, to stay quit!
#3. QSteps: Simple steps as simple as 1,2 and 3. Easy to remember like NOPE - Not One Puff Ever, by us, come what may. We do this ODAAT - One Day At A Time. We ASA - Always Stay Alert to watch out for triggers that makes us vulnerable like HALT- Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired. That is all, we would ever need to KTQ - Keep The Quit.
#4. QMaintenance: We work on our quit daily, or as frequently, as we can. Quitting is not an event, but a long term process. It needs to be sustained. We need to become ex-smokers. We never test our resolve un-necessarily but we dont flinch either if we are forced to. We just keep doing whatever that worked for us, thus far.
#5. QPriorities: Quitting smoking is why we are here for. We stay focussed and be relevant. We never lose sight of the primary purpose: to stay quit, for a lifetime. Quitting is one of the most important things that we are doing for ourselves. We are in for a lot of changes, re-adjustments and re-learning. We need to be one hundred percent committed, always.
#6. QStruggles: Be prepared to slog it out and its a long haul. Sustaining a quit is no walk in a rose garden. We`ll have to fight. We`ll have pains. We`ll feel weary. Yet, we never ever give up. We just keep adding to those numbers of cigarettes and days not smoked. We keep struggling like a caterpillar to become strong and beautiful like a butterfly.
#7. QFriendships: While we are at it, we try and become a little more unselfish. Quitting smoking is not a competition. We learn to love, share and to extend help without expectations. If ever we get hurt, we forgive and forget. We never presume anything. We`ll be amazed, when we find, that folks who are mean, are as vulnerable as us.
#8. QGratitude: We always remain grateful and we acknowledge our dues. Its not important to repay them as much as it is to realize that we were given, when we needed anything most. We enjoy being blessed thus. We appreciate all that we have got. We also remember here that HE who lives high above, always keeps looking out for us.
#9. QHumility: Mine or yours are not the only ways to stay quit. There are others. Let us learn to live with this reality. We would never force ourselves on others. Our world is just as big as we can actually perceive. The real world however extends far beyond. So, we only have a tiny part of the whole picture. Let us take what we want and leave it at that.
#10. QLaughter: We increase our QFQ - Quit Fun Quotient! We learn to laugh often. We let down our hair and laugh with our friends. It helps us bond together. More importantly, we learn to laugh at ourselves. It helps us stay in the right shape and size, mentally. It helped me, to stay humble, in a very easy way.
#11. QCatch? Soon, we`ll find it all seems easy to do, which it is, in fact. Yet, we wonder where lies the catch or when will we fail. No! We never fail unless we want to. No lightning can ever short-circuit us and cause a lighted cigarette to be placed between our lips. We start believing that good times can really happen to us in life and that the best is yet to come.
#12. QFarewell: Our quit now rocks and we decide to quit Quitnet. No! Our story needs to be shared as a proof of the concept. We need to make folks believe that quitting is doable. Apart from helping us in the long run by repeating our success story, we might someday make just the critical difference for a newbie to start and sustain a quit.
NB: That difference, my friends, would correspond to, one more life saved !!!
From Knight Cyberian profile