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This seemed like the most appropriate place to get this going on 
I know there's a couple of other new non-smokers (again. LOL) lurking around on the board and I thought it might be helpful for the masses if we put ourselves out there and talked about where we came from with it, what we've tried and what's worked/working for us.
I refuse to say "I quit smoking." or "I gave up smoking" because it implies that I'm sacrificing something - and by being a non-smoker I GAIN EVERYTHING AND LOSE NOTHING.
A 'lil background for me.
I started induction and became a non-smoker on the same day back in May 2002. I never slacked, never backslid. I reached my weight goal and remained a non-smoker for almost 3 years.
Since March of this year the proverbial ship hit the sand in several areas of my life and I stopped taking care of me for a little while. As a result, I started smoking again and put on almost 15lbs.
I became a non-smoker again on Monday, August 15th (and reinducted) and I'm finding it as easy this time as I did the first time, thanks again to Mr. Allen Carr. Really - I feel like I've been set free again.
I must have "quit" smoking 1000 times before I found what works for me. Patches, gum, medication, cutting down only to find I couldn't give up those last few smokes, cold turkey, inhalers. I'm pretty sure I've done it all. I'd start off gang busters with the best of intentions and spend the first week or two being so miserable that I didn't even like being around me, let alone my poor family and friends!! I remember one time my mom actually stood in the door way and threw cigarettes at me telling me to smoke so I wouldn't be such a b!tch! (Gee- thanks mom. LOL LOL).
A friend of mine on the other side of the pond sent me a book titled Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking, and she dared me to read it. Seriously. She asked me to read it and I told her no, but then she dared me and bet me a lipstick (LOL, what can I say? I'm a junkie) and it was ON!
It's a 220 page book and I swear, it took me a month and a half to read it the first time. I'd start reading it, get mad & put it down and come back to it a day or two later, get frustrated with it again, put it down, and come back again. Once I'd worked my through it once, I picked it up Sunday May 3rd 2002 - read it cover to cover that afternoon and didn't touch a cigarette again for almost 3 years. - And I never felt deprived or like I was missing anything.
For me and I think the majority of smokers - scare tactics don't work. We already know it's garbage for our health. We know it'll kill us or at least make us a helluva lot more prone to several diseases that surely will.
This is why I liked Allen Carr. He gave me credit for knowing that it was killing me and didn't go into the whole health risks issue. He addressed it for what it was - nicotine addiction and brain washing. I felt like he talked to me as though I was an intelligent, strong person instead of some weak willed pathetic excuse for an addictive person. LOL
He says things like :
Admit it. It's funny and attention grabbing!
See what I mean?
He challenged me in a way that no other method/way ever had and it works for me.
So, here I am again - on Day 3, and I will keep updating my signature to make myself accountable to the masses here - but I really don't feel like I need to. I've learned that stopping smoking is easy - it's making sure you don't start again that can be tricky. I won't be falling into that trap again. I'm all done.
So - what's worked for you? What are you trying? Are you thinking about giving it a shot? Are you ready to look for a solution? Where are you at in the whole thing and how do you feel about it?!
Me?
I'm FREE!!!!
~Brook
I know there's a couple of other new non-smokers (again. LOL) lurking around on the board and I thought it might be helpful for the masses if we put ourselves out there and talked about where we came from with it, what we've tried and what's worked/working for us.
I refuse to say "I quit smoking." or "I gave up smoking" because it implies that I'm sacrificing something - and by being a non-smoker I GAIN EVERYTHING AND LOSE NOTHING.
A 'lil background for me.
I started induction and became a non-smoker on the same day back in May 2002. I never slacked, never backslid. I reached my weight goal and remained a non-smoker for almost 3 years.
Since March of this year the proverbial ship hit the sand in several areas of my life and I stopped taking care of me for a little while. As a result, I started smoking again and put on almost 15lbs.
I became a non-smoker again on Monday, August 15th (and reinducted) and I'm finding it as easy this time as I did the first time, thanks again to Mr. Allen Carr. Really - I feel like I've been set free again.
I must have "quit" smoking 1000 times before I found what works for me. Patches, gum, medication, cutting down only to find I couldn't give up those last few smokes, cold turkey, inhalers. I'm pretty sure I've done it all. I'd start off gang busters with the best of intentions and spend the first week or two being so miserable that I didn't even like being around me, let alone my poor family and friends!! I remember one time my mom actually stood in the door way and threw cigarettes at me telling me to smoke so I wouldn't be such a b!tch! (Gee- thanks mom. LOL LOL).
A friend of mine on the other side of the pond sent me a book titled Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking, and she dared me to read it. Seriously. She asked me to read it and I told her no, but then she dared me and bet me a lipstick (LOL, what can I say? I'm a junkie) and it was ON!
It's a 220 page book and I swear, it took me a month and a half to read it the first time. I'd start reading it, get mad & put it down and come back to it a day or two later, get frustrated with it again, put it down, and come back again. Once I'd worked my through it once, I picked it up Sunday May 3rd 2002 - read it cover to cover that afternoon and didn't touch a cigarette again for almost 3 years. - And I never felt deprived or like I was missing anything.
For me and I think the majority of smokers - scare tactics don't work. We already know it's garbage for our health. We know it'll kill us or at least make us a helluva lot more prone to several diseases that surely will.
This is why I liked Allen Carr. He gave me credit for knowing that it was killing me and didn't go into the whole health risks issue. He addressed it for what it was - nicotine addiction and brain washing. I felt like he talked to me as though I was an intelligent, strong person instead of some weak willed pathetic excuse for an addictive person. LOL
He says things like :
I will tell you not to try cutting down or using substitutes like sweets or chewing gum (particularly anything containing nicotine). The reason why I am so dogmatic is that I know my subject. I do not deny that there are many people who have succeeded in stopping by using such ruses, but they have succeeded in spite of, not because of them. There are people who can make love standing on a hammock, but it's not the easiest way.
Some say cigarettes are very enjoyable. They aren't. They are filthy, disgusting objects. Ask any smoker who thinks he smokes only because he enjoys a cigarette if, when he hasn't got his own brand and can only obtain a brand he finds distasteful, he stops smoking. Smokers would rather smoke old rop than not smoke at all. Enjoyment has nothing to do with it. I enjoy lobster but I never got to the stage where I had to have twenty lobsters hanging round my neck. With other things in life, we enjoy them while we are doing them but we don't sit feeling deprived when we are not.
Some say, "It is something to dow tih my hands!" So, why light it?
"It is oral satisfaction." So, why light it?
"It is the feeling of the smoke going into my lungs." An awful feeling- it is called suffocation.
"It is oral satisfaction." So, why light it?
"It is the feeling of the smoke going into my lungs." An awful feeling- it is called suffocation.
He challenged me in a way that no other method/way ever had and it works for me.
So, here I am again - on Day 3, and I will keep updating my signature to make myself accountable to the masses here - but I really don't feel like I need to. I've learned that stopping smoking is easy - it's making sure you don't start again that can be tricky. I won't be falling into that trap again. I'm all done.
So - what's worked for you? What are you trying? Are you thinking about giving it a shot? Are you ready to look for a solution? Where are you at in the whole thing and how do you feel about it?!
Me?
I'm FREE!!!!
~Brook
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