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Repost:  When does it get better?

This is so very true.  We have to quit - we have to let the smoke screen clear and then we can finally see the lies our addiction had been telling us to keep us enslaved.  I remember crying for the loss of my 25 best friends.  I journaled about how much I missed them.  Folks - your friends do not try to kill you - keep that in mind and do not shed a single tear for them as they do not care about you.
Quitting is challenging but the freedom you gain  - soooo worth the effort.
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when does it get better
From awojo on 1/17/2012 2:19:27 PM
I asked this question here at the Q at a point in time when I was really, really struggling in my quit. I want to share with you one of the answers I received, because I printed these words out and put them up in my office:

When will this pass is a question asked many times here on the Q. I cannot give you an exact date but I can tell you this.

It will pass when you finally and completely let go of the idea that you are missing something by not smoking.

It ends when you come to the realisation that there is no way that sucking noxious poison fumes into your body will make your life better in any way.

It gets better when you accept that your life is really better without cigarettes and decide to live life, with all its ups and downs, without a chemical crutch.

Do this and I promise it will get better.

KTQ
Dan
548 days, 23 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds smoke free. 16469 cigarettes not smoked. $5,352.75 and 4 months, 5 days, 19 hours of my life saved! My quit date: 5/2/2010 11:59:59 AM

I hope Dan's words hit home for you the way they did for me. It was the reality check I needed at a critical time when I was fed up with my quit.

And you know what....Dan was right. I changed my mind about what I thought I was "missing", and it got BETTER. And now here I am, with over 100 days smoke free and it is better!

It's worth it. KTQ.

Adele

102 days, 14 hours, 7 minutes and 21 seconds smoke free. 1847 cigarettes not smoked. $881.28 and 14 days, 2 hours of my life saved! My quit date: 10/7/2011

(Thank you again, Dan, for the reality check!)

Repost: When does it get better?

This is so very true. We have to quit - we have to let the smoke screen clear and then we can finally see the lies our addiction had been telling us to keep us enslaved. I remember crying for the loss of my 25 best friends. I journaled about how much I missed them. Folks - your friends do not try to kill you - keep that in mind and do not shed a single tear for them as they do not care about you.
Quitting is challenging but the freedom you gain - soooo worth... Show more