Post by judyb on Jun 16, 2004 11:19:23 GMT -5
Mind-Management & Focus, Preparation....
The aids are just that-aids to help you reach your goals..(they're
also there to help the people around us).
The best thing, IMHO, that you can do at this early point, is that you
commit to this project with intense focus.
No aid is going to quit for you. You can't go under it, around it, over it,
but you must go THROUGH the quit.
We have windows of opportunities in our lives. You know that. You also know
there's been times in our lives we have let those windows slide by.
The beauty is, is that you have absolutely nothing to lose, and everything
to gain.
Expect that you will be challenged. It will be a singular, exciting
experience.
There is nothing in the world you can do that will have greater positive
impact on your
health than the walk away from smoking.
You can, as a smoker, be on an exercise machine for years and never match
this.
You can eat train boxcar loads of broccoli and bean sprouts and oatmeal
mush, and lima
beans until they’re coming out of your ears, great armloads of vitamins,
and never come
close to equaling what you are doing now. It is the ultimate gift of health
to the smoker.
Winners don't take stupid chances. Winners know that focus and preparation
and an aggressive attitude and the intention to do one's very best, is hard
to beat.
This is the time to really discover mind management--that culturing that
attitude, that
feeling of being grateful, is absolutely deadly to cravings or moping--and
this is something
only you can do.
If you find yourself in a situation prior to your quit date, where your mind
is right, the window in the right position, take it as a sign and go for it.
In the end you can have an accomplishment that you can be genuinely proud of
the rest of
your life.
Keep your eyes on the prize.
from alt.support.stop.smoking (as3) - 1/8/1999 - Roadkill