Repost: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due This is soooooooooo true. I...

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Repost:  Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

This is soooooooooo true. I found that my firsts - especially those early firsts were really taxing as I had to get through them with out my best friend and comfort. But guess what - I did it and I also came to see - they did nothing for me - just drained me.... all the time taking credit for what I do - hmmm kind of like my boss lol.
Quitting is doable - give yourself the credit!
Take back what belongs to you.
Cara
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From gummer on 12/27/2005 1:26:34 PM
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Yesterday I saw a woman sitting on a bench... smoking.

I was struck by the look of intensity on her face.

She was lost in thought.

Thinking hard.

...solving... resolving... strategizing... planning... concluding... analyzing...

All of this WHILE she smoked.

And I suspect that when she finished she most likely gave the cigarette credit for everything she figured out during that intense thinking session.

In her mind it was the cigarette gave her the insight, the cleverness, the analytical power to resolve whatever issues were at hand... it helped her plan all the things she still had to do... focus... strategize on how to handle and prioritize chores and problems, and deadlines.

She failed to realize that the cigarettes were only along for the ride... that she simply smoked WHILE SHE RESOLVED the issues on her own.

And THAT is why quitting can be so excrutiatingly hard.

Because we give credit to cigarettes for all kinds of stuff that they cannot, and do not do. And by thinking that giving up smoking also means giving up these imagined `benefits`.

So work to correct your thinking on this issue and start giving yourself the credit. You will quickly find quitting a lot easier, a lot more desirable, a lot more reasonable.

Smoking doesn`t give you a single thing of value... it never did... and it never will.

So don`t let it fool you any longer.

Gummer

Repost: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

This is soooooooooo true. I found that my firsts - especially those early firsts were really taxing as I had to get through them with out my best friend and comfort. But guess what - I did it and I also came to see - they did nothing for me - just drained me.... all the time taking credit for what I do - hmmm kind of like my boss lol.
Quitting is doable - give yourself the credit!
Take back what belongs to you.
Cara
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