Challenge to my authority

[Mason]

I have been smoke free since the summer of last year and thought I had really turneded a corner. Last nite the cigarettes attempted a coup that was unprecedented. I was very close to "just 2 tonite" and then I'll be okay. This has been my ruin before, I fought and won and this morning I am claiming victory over this battle! NOPE!!!

[Humbled]

Well done - hold on to your quit at all costs -

[Nancy]

Great victory!!  So many people have been sucked into smoking for years more when they succumb to that kind of thinking!!  One puff away from a pack a day.

[babs609]

Great post! You are even stronger than you were before as a result.

 

Well done Mason!!

[Tink]

yay  Mason!

 

[ChRiSpY]

Like a boss!!!

 

It will get easier.

[Runfree]

Well done!!  Thank you for sharing this Mason.  It just confirms the fact that we must be ever vigilant in our quits and to not "rest on our laurels".  As a newbie, it lets me know I need to settle in and maintain this an my new normal.

 

I have a friend who lit up on a 6 month quit.  It was around Thanksgiving time and she was so so so mad at herself.  It's March; she's still smoking.

[Fay]

Great job, Mason!  We must always be on guard!

[Still winning]

Epic win Mason, really pleased for you. That would have been a great quit in tatters. Quite apart from how hard it is to quit again! Really proud of you Mason :)  Did well. xx

[Chrysalis]

Good job, Mason! Talk about a Nicodemon Smack Down!  Wooo Hooo!  :yahoo:

 

You must be so pleased with yourself for FINALLY catching on to Nicdemon's tricks and snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Yes, it's hard to understand why these feelings can come from out of nowhere especially after such a long quit. But they do happen to everybody. Thank you for sharing your victory with us.

[Doreensfree]

Well done mason....for kicking that nico monsters butt......

You have a great quit.....keep tight hold of it...

[DCCXXVII]

Well done Mason... well done :)

 

[cpk]

:wub:  I really liked this thread because it shows how you have to

keep stepping on the back of the addiction until it's broken.

I have quit other things in my life...and once the thing is broken

it's dead...even if there are thoughts. But it's odd that even having

done it with other things...smoking seems somehow different. Why

does smoking get to be so special??????????????????

 

I sometimes have this fear that in a second I will somehow "forget"

I am a nonsmoker.

 

How is it possible to have such an insane fear? (For the record, I

don't drink so I'm not talking about being out at a party or something.)

 

I really enjoyed reading this thread. Thanks, all.

[cpk]

I cut out drinking in 2014 because it automatically killed all my quits. It's just an

association I couldn't break. I liked my couple of Guinness a month, but I knew

I wanted to quit smoking in 2015. So not drinking hasn't been a big sacrifice.

 

I know now there will be places and times I will be

confronted by the addiction and won't be able to control the whole situation, so

I will remember that I own authority on this matter!

[El Bandito]

The vigilant quit survives.

 

Good work Mason.

[cpk]

Well done!!  Thank you for sharing this Mason.  It just confirms the fact that we must be ever vigilant in our quits and to not "rest on our laurels".  As a newbie, it lets me know I need to settle in and maintain this an my new normal.

 

I have a friend who lit up on a 6 month quit.  It was around Thanksgiving time and she was so so so mad at herself.  It's March; she's still smoking.

Thank you so much for this!

[Devil Doll]

Well done Mason! 8 months is tricky isn't it? I have noticed many quits lost around that time frame from similar situations. Congratulations on protecting and keeping your quit, that is a huge win!!

[buMbLeB]

Hi, don't think we've met. Masons build things out of stone, don't they?

 

 

 

Good name.

[JackiMac]

Fantastic Mason, you overcame and won, be proud xx

[Mason]

Thanks all ! Just so you know that urge has past and I am in a good place.

[Petra]

Good reminder to us at all stages of smoking.  Sometimes, even after years of not smoking, we think, "Oh, I'm drinking tonight so I can just have a couple and be back to not smoking tomorrow."  That thinking has killed many a quits, including a four year one of my own.  I won't make that mistake again. 

 

Way to go, Mason!  :)

[Pippa]

Awesome jobMason - so happy you recognised those thoughts for hat they were and shut them down !!

[sgt.barney]

 

 

Easy Peasy

[Rooster]

Congrats Mason. Thanks for showing that the fight gets easier over time but doesn't end. And that it's something you can keep winning if you stay vigilant and strong. Way to go man!

[Ricki M]

You should be so proud you didn't give in...WTG