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Old 01-22-2009, 01:12 PM  
Snake Doctor
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You're never going to have a moment when you're all of a sudden going to say "Wow, I don't want a cigarette ever again"

There will always be times when you want one. Those times are much less frequent the farther into the quit you get.

I stopped and started again 5 or maybe 6 times before I gave it up for good. Every time I stopped, there were times I wished I could have a cigarette...and times I even fantasized about how much better life would be if I could smoke (it would calm me down, help me focus, keep me alert...blah blah blah....all lies)

Every time I started again, I spent MOST of the day regretting that I was smoking and wishing I'd stayed off of them.

I finally realized that no matter what I did I wasn't going to be 100% happy, so I may as well go with the option that wasn't killing me. So I threw them out and haven't had another one since.

Here's something important to consider. Every quit is different. Sometimes you go through hell the first few days and sometimes it's easy (was easy for me this last time)...but you never know.
If you start again, it's possible that you'll never stop before it cripples or kills you. If you start smoking again now then all that you've endured for the past 3 weeks was for nothing.
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