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Friday Smile - me today!

Teach

3 hours 3 hrs

7,002 Days Quit

Love this
KTQ
Cara
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Don't Give A Damn
From DJD8960 on 2/7/2007 10:03:03 AM

I liked this advice...
Donna

Sometimes, it can seem that you are not making any progress, but you really are!

You're going through a stage that we all know.

You are still AFRAID of and want to GET RID of the desire to smoke.

Today try to notice if you are still FIGHTING the... Show more

Teach

3 hours 3 hrs

7,002 Days Quit

Good morning all
Happy Friday to you!

Up and going for the day. In the office and off to a location to see a couple of kids this morning at one of the south locations. Saying NO to smoking today and moving forward along the Freedom Road. I offer my hand to the next winner joining me kicking ash to the curb today.
Have a good one
Cara
D7002

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Thursday smile - Ture for me lol

Teach

yesterdayyesterday

7,002 Days Quit

Repost: Stress after quitting

Another excellent Eric repost.
Have a good day
Cara
D7001

Stress After Quitting
From Eric7704 on 12/3/2009 12:53:55 PM

Stress can be a huge trigger for people quitting smoking and a lot of people believe that on some level smoking relieved their stress. It didn't. Smoking actually creates stress.

The whole business of smoking is relieving an anxiety that the previous cigarette created. AN ANXIETY THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I'm sure... Show more

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Teach

yesterdayyesterday

7,002 Days Quit

Good morning all
Happy Thursday to you!
Rainy cool day here today but since I owe, off to work I go. 6 days left. In the office today, hope to make it in and get home. Saying NO to smoking today and keeping to my path along the freedom Road. I offer my hand in friendship and support to the next winning quitter joining me kicking ash to the curb today.
Have a great day
Cara
D7001

4Y 0M
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Wednesday Smile

Repost:  There Comes a Time......

Very true!
KTQ
Cara
D7000

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There comes a time...
From healing2 on 10/11/2000 9:40:55 PM

when you just can't rationalize existing in a state of perpetual guilt and disatisfaction with being a smoker. For a while you're unaware of the discomfort that smoking causes to your spiritual growth. You might even be able to convince yourself that smoking actually enhances your ability to think, feel comfortable, produce, relax, motivate, and enjoy a given situation.

But after a time, perhaps a REALLY long time, all these rationalizations become less plausible. Smoking becomes undressed of it's vails of deception and it becomes more clear how it really effects your daily behavior. Perhaps you become aware of it making you more tired, using it as a crutch to postpone the next task, feeling its effects upon your state of mind, recognize it hindering your desire to do and try new things, accepting that it curtails your physical strength, becoming aware of how deeply it lets you burry your feelings and emotions.

This realization is a bit like preparing an onion. At first you peel off the thinest sheath of skin. The smell hits your nose and it is offended. A bit sweet and pungent you begin to slice away through the sphere. There is now an urgency to work through the task of preparation. This stage is followed by tears as you hack away at the layers of complex growth that have developed over time. When you're through dicing the many layers that once built you're habit, you're left with a pile of raw nerve and existance that you have endless choices of how to use. NOW you're ready to cook.

The beauty of tearing down all the falshoods of our shealths of smoking skins is how sweet and delicious our lives might become. Never before were we able to recognize the naked beauty of our inner selves. We really believed that we were, lazy, productive, angry, sad, happy because of our relationship with cigarettes. When we stop smoking we are free to turn ourselves around in our own hands. We can finally look at ourselves more clearly and mold what we will become with a sense of purpose and strength previously hidden by the falisies of smokers thought.

If you're afraid of finding out what lies beneath the years of habit you've built to fortress yourself from your true being know that you are absolutely not alone. I'll wager that everyone at this site has felt afraid to begin the first tear in their habit's rather sturdy outer skin. I'll also bet that most of us who find themselves somewhere in the tears of chopping up the layers of existance that we once clearly thought was who we were, are still frightened. And that those who feel confident that they have desided upon throwing away their habit's skin and cooking themselves up a whole new habit are tasting life as if they've never eaten a perfectly sauteed onion before.

An onion can be planted again. From it new bulbs grow. You can decide to replant your old bulbs and allow yourself to remain burried in the falisies and dark of smoking. Or you can at last dig yourself out of the darkness and begin to tear away at the layers of your former smoking self. I believe that you'll be pleasently suprised at what intricate layers lie beneath that outer armor. I hope you'll choose to taste the sweet delicacies that are you.

Repost: There Comes a Time......

Very true!
KTQ
Cara
D7000

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There comes a time...
From healing2 on 10/11/2000 9:40:55 PM

when you just can't rationalize existing in a state of perpetual guilt and disatisfaction with being a smoker. For a while you're unaware of the discomfort that smoking causes to your spiritual growth. You might even be able to... Show more

Good morning all
Happy Hump Day!!!!

7 days of work left - do I sound like I am counting down lol. I lose my internet next Tuesday as I am not paying for an additional month for 6 plus days of internet. Will be gone for about a month as it is a cross country drive and I need to get in the new house and find the computer lol. Smoking saying NO to that today and every day. Keeping moving along the Freedom Road kicking ash as I go . Who will join me today?????
Have a good one - look at all the... Show more

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Tuesday Smile

Break the cycle of serial quitting!

Excellent repost!
KTQ
Cara
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GogglesOff
1552 Days Quit

If you hate the words 'serial quitter', use your hatred of the term 'serial quitter' to your advantage then and break the cycle. From what I've seen over the 4 years 3 months I've been here, I've no doubt at all that is much harder and soul destroying to be caught in the cycle of relapse hell... Show more

Good morning all
Happy Tuesday to you!
Up and going for the day today. Off to my office for the day yet again and I have to stop and get cat meds after work. Smoking saying NO to that today. I want to keep moving along the Freedom Road kicking ash as I go. Who will join me today????
Have a great day
Cara
D6999

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Monday Smile

Repost:  Fighting the Urges or Accepting Them?

Another excellent post by Eric 7704.

I found when I accepted that craves were my body healing I felt better.  Craves are a suggestion not a command and each time you say no, you gain back a bit more power.  It does not seem so at the beginning, but the craves do lessen and for a long long time, a crave for me comes out of the blue with a suggestion - I may be driving and see someone smoking and think I should have a smoke - I dismiss it with - No thanks, I do not smoke anymore.  Done.
Quitting is doable.
Take smoking off the table as an option in your life.
KTQ
Cara
D6998
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REPOST:
Fighting The Urges or Accepting Them?
From Eric7704 on 11/4/2009 3:30:45 PM

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water,
Yet nothing can better overcome the hard and strong,
For they can neither control nor do away with it.

The soft overcomes the hard,
The yielding overcomes the strong;

Just as a sapless tree will split and decay
So an inflexible force will meet defeat;
The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

~~Tao Te Ching

I used to believe that I was too weak to quit smoking. That I didn't have enough willpower to accomplish what seemed impossible and I had many failed quit attempts to validate this. For I have tried to quit so many different times and so many different ways that I had simply lost count, but while they may have differed in time and approaches. They all gave me the same answer. That I didn't have the strength to quit.

A lot of us don't feel that we are strong enough to free ourselves from this addiction. That we simply don't have enough willpower to overcome the urges when we first quit. And most of us have the memories of past quit attempts to witness to this, only to validate what we already believe. That addiction is stronger than us.

But what would happen if we stopped trying to be stronger than our addiction? After all, isn't this really what we have tried to do whenever we quit before? How many of us have quit smoking before, only to find ourselves later on down the road trying to find a compromise with the thinking that we would only smoke when this or that happened or during a certain time of day or an event? Then to only find ourselves back to square one with the added burden of having the belief that once again addiction has proved itself stronger than we are.

I used to say that I was powerless over smoking, yet my actions said otherwise. For I always tried to find a compromise after quitting. Carl Jung once said, and Einstein said something similar that "We cannot solve a problem on the same level of consciousness that created the problem." And yet, that is exactly what I let my junkie thinking do. Try to find a solution within the problem. That will always fail and in that was I acting insane. For again, Einstein defined insanity of doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

And often times when we attempt to quit smoking. We tell ourselves that this time we're going to muster up as much willpower that we can find and build up these walls for protection against the craves and urges that may come up. As soon as we feel a crave, we're going to fight it off and defeat it and this time we're going to win this battle. And maybe we do win the battle, but what about the "war"?

Repost: Fighting the Urges or Accepting Them?

Another excellent post by Eric 7704.

I found when I accepted that craves were my body healing I felt better. Craves are a suggestion not a command and each time you say no, you gain back a bit more power. It does not seem so at the beginning, but the craves do lessen and for a long long time, a crave for me comes out of the blue with a suggestion - I may be driving and see someone smoking and think I should have a smoke - I dismiss it with - No... Show more

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Good morning all
Happy Monday to you!!!!

I owe, I owe, in to work I go. 2 weeks left till I retire - 9 days of work. No smoking here today. saying NO to smoking and keeping to my path along the Freedom Road. I offer my hand to the next winning quitter joining me kicking ash to the curb today.
Have a great day
Cara
D6998

4Y 0M
Life Saved
$103,920
Money Saved
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Unsmoked

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