Guard Yourself from Smoking Relapse

April 30th, 2010

Finally you have quit smoking and after 3 weeks, nicotine withdrawal symptom barely bothers you. You can gracefully raise your hand and say proudly “thanks, but I already quit smoking…” when someone offers you a cigarette. You can enjoy drinking coffee without the slightest idea of lighting a cigarette and the habit and associations themselves have become very weak. You have quit successfully and finally looking back to your old self as a smoker, you feel great, attaining a bliss you have never dreamed you would attain, but here you are a happy and free ex-smoker, congratulations! But be on your guard always cause this is only just the beginning.

Being an ex-smoker does not guarantee you’ll never go back to this slavery of smoking again. There are many ex-smokers whom I have known who had this smoking relapse, or started to smoke again and you could hear several reasons and causes of this comeback. I myself fell for this smoking relapse and slipped twice, and in those two times, I smoked averaged 3 – 4 weeks each before quitting again. I was just fortunate enough that I have conditioned my mind properly and was able to removed the brainwashing about all the smoking lies that that was planted in my mind through autosuggestion. So it gave me no difficulty in quitting twice during my smoking relapses. But I know some who went back and was chained again to this misery. So please once you quit, don’t ever ever think of smoking again, and avoid at all cost the “just one stick” temptation. Keep in mind that this habit and slavery started with just one cigarette.

Appreciate this short life we have been given, it’s already too short, don’t make it shorter by chaining yourself to the slavery brought by smoking. Avoid the relapse, enjoy life with us, be a an ex-smoker and once again a non-smoker, maintain it, so subscribe to our feed (above).


Ex-Smoker Colin

April 20th, 2010

Testimonial – this is a contributed article from Colin.

I have smoked for 14 years now, I have made several attempts to quit lasting maybe a day or a week at a time. I realized however this time I had to make it work but unfortunately its just not that simple. If it was all we would be doing is quitting smoking. The big thing in my head at the beginning was could I do it, was I mentally ready? I didn’t want to fail again I didn’t want to disappoint my friends and family so I took the global economic downturn and used it to my advantage. If I could save the money I was spending on cigarettes what would it mean to me? Well quite a lot actually as I soon found out I set a goal and calculated the amount of money I would save over a week then a month then a year the figure I came up with was staggering. I went from smoking 20 – 30 cigarettes a day to quitting.

I don’t have the greatest willpower in the world but I managed it. Now my next goal is to stay off them, I know there will surely be times when I will be tempted to have one but right now im determined to quit for good. I started my own blog Colin The Bronc to help myself and hopefully others to quit smoking once and for all… if only one person finds it helpful and manages to quit then it has worked. Best of luck to all remember it gets easier and there is always someone willing to help you

Colin..

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Thank you for this sharing your story Colin, wish you all the best.