Ria

Larklibby... I LURVE that saying btw.... "I'd rather be an ex-smoker with an occasional desire to smoke, than a smoker with a constant desire to stop doing it" Can I steal it? and change it a bit...? would you mind? I'd rather be a NON-smoker with an occasional urge to smoke, than an addict with a constant craving to quit.....

I hope y'all don't assume that if I'm MIA for a few days, that I've jumped out!!??? lol!! :lol: Not many 'online' here when I am... :(

Plus "this too shall pass"!! Hope you're feeling better :wub:

Oh REALLY!!??? That's FANTASTIC!!! So there ya'go!!! GOOD FOR YOU! I STAND CORRECTED! My sister also quit 'the hard way'.... so now, reading your response, I should take back what I said to Carly!!!! Here's the proof, Carly!!!! and who knows? Maybe it should be called the "Easy- ER" way.... I mean, how incredibly STOOPID was I? After over a YEAR....to smoke a 'few' thinking I wouldn't get hooked again!???? How wrongly "cocky" was I???? As Colleen would say NOPE!!!! Not One Puff Ever!!!!!! not for ANY reason.... :P

Good Morning, EVERYONE! Not One Puff Ever!!!! NOPE NOPE NOPE! LOL!! :yahoo:

Hello there xox Hope you're feeling better ... have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDJo1vfEqlo Eye-opening and entertaining! :wub:

just thought to add, it's Sunday here! 14th June 2015! 9.45am

;) N.O.P.E. :D LURVE this acronym!!!!! and very pleased to meet y'all! :wub:

Hello Carly! Having just quit for the LAST TIME EVER, I class myself as an 'expert' smoker/quitter/junkie/excuse maker or whatever you want to call it! If you're 'nervous' about quitting, then don't even try!! PLEASE! In order to quit successfully, ie quit with happiness and relief in your heart, one must be ABSOLUTELY SURE it's what you WANT to do!!!! Not should or have to, but really WANT to!!! Watch this....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDJo1vfEqlo and/or read "Allen Carr's EASYWAY to stop smoking".... My history in a nutshell....had been smoking for over 38 years!! so heard from my hairdresser how "easy" it was with this method... read it, followed it to a "t"... (smoking while reading it is important) and on the worst day of my (then working week), deadline Tuesday, I simply quit! Was elated, happy, resolved and "freeeeee"!!! ...... it seemed like a 'miracle'..!!! 18mths or so, down the track, I can't tell you EXACTLY what happened, but my 'ex' still smoked (he's dead now from Cancer) so I shared 1 with him.... without even realising it, I was hooked again!!!! What I'd missed the 1st time reading the book, in 2005, was his sentence "the easier it is to quit, the easier it will be to start again".... Anyway.... 10 years down my smokey track, now 48 years, and SEVERAL failed attempts to quit for longer than 2 or 3 weeks, and still without learning THE most important "rule"..... "there is no such thing as ONE cigarette"!!!!! All the rest I've known for 10 years, but for whatever reason/s couldn't/wouldn't apply them... My point, Carly... if there is ANY doubt in your mind, all you'll end up feeling is "deprived"... will power is NOT the way to quit!! We must understand and BELIEVE that there is absolutely NOTHING beneficial in smoking!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDJo1vfEqlo (just in case you missed it :D ) The taste is AWFUL!! it's mind over matter!!! The nicotine is addictive, but so mildly.... it's a psychological thing... and I knew that but STILL smoked!!! LOL!! how stoopid is that?? Anyway, I'm FREE now, thank God!!! I was going to 'finish the pack' and that's it... done that SO many times... but once the feeling of true 'disgust' filled my mouth and mind, I simply scrunched up the remaining few and threw it!!! THAT'S how I know that I'll never smoke again!! ......not even 1.... to make my friend (who puffs about 100 a day on a bad day) "feel better"... I wish you all the very best of luck, but if you read the book (I've got the 20th anniversary edition) and/or watch that video, with an open mind, you're on the right path!!! Ria ;)