Dear Joel
I like to thank you and every one at whyquit.com and freedom .Even being just a lurker you have help turn my quit into such a powerful quit it is today.
The first week was solid studying, the next was trigger defeating the best being a visit to a indoor shopping centre for hours (as a smoker I'd be in & out in 15 minutes ) If I did have a crave I would think of Bryan and Bobbie and picture myself in Bryan's position with my wife and eight year old daughter beside me . I never want to put my family through the pain that you can see Bobbie went through It reminds you it's not a game or something you announce on New years eve for fun its life and death,I choose life.I'm now in my eighth week; can you reach the comfort zone so soon?
If I think of myself smoking it's not because I want to but because I did , if that makes sense.
I feel safe with my quit and after 26 year of smoking 20 years spent trying to stop. All those quits lost because I never knew the rule of addiction, all those years wasted just because I did not understand what quitting smoking really meant .I've learnt my lesson if I live to be a hundred it would be as a non-smoker.
Free at last Ian