Update

[terri54]

I had a couple of minutes this morning to share some information.  I am doing well at 106 days smoke free!  I have been very busy at work with very large stress levels.  Stress has always been my excuse for smoking but not this time.  The EX community gave me the tools to get this far and I know I will continue in my quit.  To all the newbies I would like to tell you what helped me.  I read the following on line book:

http://joga.365.lt/Allen-Carr_Easy-Way-To-Stop-Smoking_Download-free-PDF-EBook

This book convinced me that quitting smoking was a good thing.  In my past 16 years of quitting time after time I felt like I was giving up something.  This material made me realize I was getting rid of something that was killing me and to be happy every time I had a withdrawal symptom because I knew the poison was leaving my body.

I also read 2 other on line information sources:

www.quitsmokingonline.com

www.whyquit.com

This information was just as helpful and helped me to realize that I wasn't giving up anything; I was gaining control of my life again.

Since I have been a part of this community I have found lots of good friends.  Some of them are suffering from the terrible diseases that smoking causes.  I started thinking about these things when I want to smoke.  I have a quit clock and think that I would have to reset that clock.  Sometime when I want to smoke I think about how far I have come and what a disappointment I would be to myself and this community.  Come here and blog if you want to smoke and there is lots of help here.  I have been talked out of it before in the early days.  Still sometimes I want to smoke.  It happened twice this week but I thought of this community, I thought of my father that had COPD and him dragging around his oxygen tank and how he now is dead from smoking, I thought of my friend on this site that needs a lung transplant, I thought of my grand baby Daecia at 3 that tells my husband "Please don't smoke, Grand pa!".  I pulled out my no smoke motto that I had laminated (I have 3 copies so they are accessible) - "If I have 'just one' I will be back to where I started.  Where I started was wishing I was where I am today.... 

    FREE!"  These are the things that help me and a BIG THANK YOU TO ALL MY FRIENDS THAT HELPED ME TO REMAIN SMOKE FREE AND GAVE ME THE TOOLS THAT HELPED ME TO BECOME FREE!