In the first few months of your Quit, try to think of your Quit as a newborn baby.
During the first few days, you are like a brand new parent with your newborn Quit. You are a little frightened, unsure, worried. You think you may not be cut out for this. You panic easily. Your Quit is tiny and helpless. Your Quit can't make it all on its own yet. Your Quit needs lots of attention. You must watch carefully over your Quit. Your Quit needs you to take good care of it. Just like a real baby.
So spend a lot of time nurturing your Quit. Do the things you need to do to make sure your Quit stays healthy. Spend a lot of time helping your Quit to grow stronger. Just as you would do for a real baby.
You may need to cut back on your usual activities in order to take good care of your little Quit.
Stay away from the places that might harm a newborn Quit. Don't take your sweet little Quit into bars. Don't take your precious Quit into the homes of smokers. You wouldn't take a real baby to these places, would you? Of course not.
Hang around with other new parents of itty-bitty Quits for support. Ask for the advice of older parents whose Quits are now toddlers, pre-teens, teenagers.
Just as in the case of a real newborn baby, your Quit will grow every day. It will become stronger and smarter. It will learn to stand on its own without you having to cradle it in your arms all the time.
Maybe someday, as your Quit grows up, it will only need a hug, a kiss, a pat on the head once in a while to remind it how much you love your Quit and how important it is to you and how wonderful you feel to have your Quit in your life.
And don't ever forget that, no matter how grown-up your Quit becomes over time, it will always need your attention. Grown-up Quits need love, too, right?
xxxooo, Sky
