Hello again Joel,

Thank you so much for your quick response. Your devotion and energy are admirable!

I hope you don’t mind me sharing my story with you. If you wish to post my letter on the message board I would only like to ask you to use my nickname Angie, instead of my real name.

A couple of months ago, on a Friday I thought maybe it was a time for me to quit, so I searched the web and found your site, it transformed my mere though for quitting into a determination. The next two days I smoked, but was disgusted by each cigarette I lit up.

So, on Monday I quit. It was too easy, no withdrawal symptoms, no desire to smoke. I started eating junk food during the day, but that was more because I thought I should, not that I really needed anything to replace the cigarettes. I know that, because 20 days later I started smoking again and now I am at 2 or 3 cigarettes in the morning and maybe 1 or 2 at night and I don’t need anything during the day, neither food nor cigarettes. After I started smoking again I promised myself that I would at least smoke when I really want to, and put out each cigarette I realize I did not enjoy. This was not a plan, but a temporary "solution" until I discover the "right" way for me.

Everybody knows that it is only a matter of time to increase that number and on top of that the studies have shown that a couple of cigarettes a day are almost as equally dangerous to a woman’s health as a whole pack. So here I am again.

I know I can quit, because I really want to. It is not as hard for me to do things or imagine myself doing things without smoking, because I have always been able to see myself through the eyes of my family (none of them ever smoked) and even despised myself a little. I also have very fond memories from the years prior to my "smoking career" and it is comforting to think I am "re-living" something from these years.

I have recognized the first problem �?/FONT> my impatience, and I am working on a strategy for that battle.