Bolivar,
You may doubt my next statement but pelase hear me out.
I know exactly how you feel.
Afraid to quit because you've been convinced that quitting is agony. "WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE AGONY OF WITHDRAWAL."
What I found almost a year ago was that there is NOTHING to be afraid of in getting nicotine out of your body, your mind, your life! NOTHING. Read for two hours at
www.WhyQuit.com &/or
All Freedom Message Boards and you'll see there is nothing scarier than continuing to senselessly kill yourself by smoking tobacco to maintain an addiction to the chemical nicotine.
Fear of success, fear of failure, fear or poor health, fear of loss of limb, fear of loss of life, fear of loss of identity? Lots of fears, Right?
They all are based on one fear - The Fear of the Unknown. Educate yourself on what happens when you take nicotine into you body. Find out for yourself what immediate and long term effects nicotine in your blood serum chemistry has in your brain and circulatory system. Discover how teh cigarette is simply a highly engineered and manipulated delivery device, ensureing you stay addicted as long as you do not break your chemical dependency.
Get rid or nicotine. Remove it from you body / mind / bloodstream. Get rid of smoking nicotine the same way you would get rid of smoking crack cocaine. Never Take Another Puff.
Here are two of my favorite reads on attitude which helped make reagaining control of my mind and my life an absolute joyful gift to me from me.
Bolivar, Be not Afraid. Give yourself the gift of LIFE! Do it for YOU, Do it NOW! THere's nothiing to be afraid of in recaiming control of your life and arresting your addiction to nicotine.
"There's Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself." (Sir Winston Churchill)
Like you, just a guy who did not know or understand whay I was addicted to tobacco until 332 days ago when I found FreedomFromTobacco and decided to NeverTakeAnotherPuff.