Renew your resolve to quit!

[Autumn]

A New Years Resolution to Quit Smoking – How to Keep it Beyond Jan 2nd?


So, here you are again. Seeing out the old year, along with its broken promises and failed, good intentions.

You arrive, fresh with newly found conviction, after the excesses of the Christmas period, at the New Year’s resolution, an annual triumph of hope over reality!

Hope, that this time you will have the single mindedness to succeed, where last time you failed. I’m not suggesting for a moment that you do not want to succeed, I’m sure that your desire to stop smoking is genuine, but here’s the reality, it’s a hope, a dream and what’s the point in having dreams if you’re not going to make them happen?

You may dream of winning the lottery and yes, you could win! But it’s down to chance and you have a better chance of flying to the moon, than of winning the lottery.

Making a real change to your life? Well that’s a dream you can make happen! And you can start right here, right now.

The problem with New Year resolutions lies in the forward planning. Moving towards a significant target date in your life, to contemplate doing something that you know is going to be a struggle, makes it even harder to live up to your own expectations.

Of course you’re not looking forward to it! What do you expect? As you begin to experience a steady build-up of tension, leading up to the big day when you’re finally going to start putting right everything that’s wrong with your life!

No pressure there then! I’m sure you’ll feel ready to start on that day!

In the meantime of course, you now have the perfect excuse to behave badly, because it doesn’t really matter if you let yourself go over Christmas does it? You can do everything to excess. It won’t really matter! After all, you deserve to have one last binge before the deprivations of the coming year ahead!

If you believe that, then you’re just fooling yourself because it makes you feel better at the moment. It’s the high, before the deep low that will inevitably follow and damage your self-esteem, sabotaging your chance of success even before you start.

Wake up and smell the coffee!!

Do you really want to stop smoking? Then do something about it, NOW!
Clear the house of all the things that you know will prevent you, NOW!
Do not put aside an emergency packet “just in case”, that’s just planning for failure!
No “last one for old times sake”
Do it NOW – as you read this article.
Don’t put it off until tomorrow, because tomorrow never comes!

How we think and feel about ourselves is often the difference between happiness and success, or frustration and failure, therefore success and real lasting changes, only comes from changing the way we think. We are all products of our own thinking.

So, every thought we think has an impact on us. We respond to our negative thoughts and to our positive thoughts. If you have a history of failing to live up to your own expectations, your memories are loaded with negative programming.

No matter how much conscious effort you put into changing your habits, your subconscious mind is flooding your body with negative messages that have been ingrained for years.

Desire to make changes is good. Taking action to start something is even better. Let’s assume that you’ve decided right now, to start making the changes that you want. If you have tried before and failed, you may need support to help you to maintain your resolve and to keep your thought processes focused on the benefits of quitting. You certainly don’t want to be obsessing about smoking all the time. If you have access to a support group, use it!

You can succeed and you can quit smoking for good. What’s stopping you from stopping?

So, don’t wait to make any New Year resolutions at midnight on the 31st of December, decide to start making the changes that you want to make in your life, RIGHT NOW!

Do something different this time.


-quitsmokingtip.com


Kind of a funny article, but I enjoyed it, and the message is there....

[Velvet]

I'm definitely quitting. So is my son. Actually Autumn, I think it's the buspar that is making them give me a tummy ache each time I smoke. I can't even do 3 drags anymore without getting nauseated.
So I think I'm done. I've only had 1/2 of one today and let me tell you...today was a day that I needed a pack! lol

So Autumn...you quitting?

[Biker Bill]

GOOD LUCK Velvet, I hope that you do quit Smoking.

[Autumn]

Velvet....I didn't even know you started back up again!



Lol....

But yeah, I think I'll give it another shot.

[Velvet]

Well, it's not exactly something I want to broadcast....."Hey you guys, did you hear? I can't do it!".....

[Velvet]

two days for me and I'm doing good. I really do think it's the buspar that is making it easy.

[cody]

hey, whatever works Velvet I successfully quit smoking once, when I used Wellbutrin. It helped tremendously, so keep up the good habits

[Autumn]

Originally Posted by Velvet

two days for me and I'm doing good. I really do think it's the buspar that is making it easy.

Good for you, Velv....