Mike and Dancer and Sonic

[Jenny]

I know you can do this Mike.  You want it enough to be here.  I wish I could hold out my hand and take you along with me so you'd know how awesome it is to be free of it.  Smoking won't make anything better.  It never did and never will. 

You are all so very valuable. (Mike, Dancer, Sonic)  You deserve so much better than being addicted to those nasty little killers.

For now, I will be thankful to have you all here starting a new quit or on the edge of one.  Stick with it. Don't get caught up in failure, learn from it and start again!!.

 

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. 

[Sonic]

How'd them smokes feel Mike?

 

Do you feel better? 

 

I am not the person I was before. Or, it seems like this. My other times when on "the sites", I felt strong, and in control, (or at least until towards the end of my last quit). I don't feel that way now. 

 

Become that person again, YOU ARE STRONG, everyone is here to help with your quit.

 

Dancer is in seat 3C I'm in 3B and you have seat 3A "the window".

 

Now get your ass back on the train.

 

We can do this. DANCER,YOU and ME! Let's GO! TIME TO CRUSH IT!

[beacon]

Mike, were you really in control right from the start before?

 

I wasn't. My whole body cried Smoke! smoke! And I was wired, dizzy, cranky. I held out, held out until I could go to bed. Day 2, day 3, day 4. This hour I will eat. This hour I will read Allen Carr, this hour I will jog, this hour I will clean. Bed. day 5.....Even now I put off smoking some times. I want to smoke so I say, well, maybe I will later. Or tomorrow. Not now though. In December I am going on a criuse. I keep thinking that the cruise will not be fun without smoking. I think, well, maybe I will smoke then. But not today though, not today. I suggest one gets strong and in control by lifting the heavy burden of the first few weeks and need I say embracing the suck.

[Pippa]

Bakon - great post - and I really hope all our early quitters know we are all part of their team and are here to provide whatever support they need!

 

Mike - you can do this - just take it one minute / hour / day at a time. Post away and keep busy .... And remember we are here for you if you need it !

[bakon]

Moving to a daily check of them now...

[Nancy]

bakon, Nice of you to start this thread, (I haven't read it yet), and all the posters in it. Seems a long thread already. I smoked last nite, and am smoking again, today. I apologize. I'm kinda ashamed. You've already invested so much into my quit. Yet here I am, throwing it all away, again.

 

I am not the person I was before. Or, it seems like this. My other times when on "the sites", I felt strong, and in control, (or at least until towards the end of my last quit). I don't feel that way now.

 

Dancer; You were speaking of needing a quitting partner to run with, or something to that effect, and I said "You bet". I cannot be this person though, even if I was still "clean" and had not smoked. Please, connect with the others, as I know you can.

 

So, there you have it.

So sad to read this...please let us help!