Originally Posted by
newwings 
Thanks for this thread, AVRT. I got Jack Trimpey's book a while back in November, during what I call my 'half hearted quit attempt'. I devoured it, and it made total sense to me, but because I wasn't fully committed to quitting I let it go back on the bookshelf. That didn't work too well for me..
I had a similar experience when I tried a "half-hearted" quit. I thought "
Never? I can't say never, that's a little extreme. Maybe I'll just make a Big Plan for a few months, and we'll see how it goes first..."
It went, alright -
BADLY !
The cardinal rule of addiction is "never say never" to getting drunk or high again. If you listen very carefully, though, when you hear "never say never," the addictive voice is actually revealing to you
precisely how to kill it: say
NEVER AGAIN!