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Old 09-09-2010, 11:53 AM
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Learn2Live
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I started smoking cigarettes about 30 years ago. A few years later, still a teen, I started trying to QUIT smoking cigarettes. I tried every which way to quit ever heard of by the human race. For several years during my twenties, I quit smoking every Monday morning. Hundred of times: I've gone cold turkey, I've had hypnosis, I've done the buddy system, I've taken classes, I've done acupunture, I've read books, I've done the patch, I've been on Wellbutrin, etc etc etc. Then finally, this past January I got on Chantix and I QUIT!!!! Finally!!!! Something worked. And here I was just going along, happy as a lark, a Non-Smoker! And then... something happened. I got stressed out. I was so angry I did not know what to do. I tried to fight it but that just made me MORE irritable. So I knowingly, consciously, made up my mind that I was going to drive down to the store and buy a pack of cigarettes. And I did. And now I am RIGHT BACK to my pack-a-day habit.

Quittin's easy. It's the STAYING quit that's so hard.
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