I'm thinking and praying for you. Friday was my day to quit too. I was lucky enough to get a prescription for Chantix so I upped my quit day by a week.
I know how you feel .. the panic, anxiety and insecurity. It's funny how my logical self can laugh at me and my emotional self is screaming for help and comfort. In the end, I think the hardest thing to accept is that even though we aren't alone in our feelings and journey we are taking, we are alone in the fact that only we, ourselves can ultimately take that first step and continue down the road to recovery. There is no magic wand, pill or adjunct that can make it all better. We are addicts and as someone wrote before, our addiction withdrawal is a child that screams and screams until we either appease the child or learn to tune out the screaming child until it learns that screaming will get no reaction.
A wise person once said to me .. �don�t try to do it .. just do it�. In thinking about what she said, it occurred to me that the word �try� was like a cop out, sort of a permission to fail. I have been very careful to say to myself I am going to quit smoking and not I�m going to try to quit smoking. As the saying goes, we are what we eat .. we also are what we think.
Take care and know I am thinking about you. Don�t try. Do it.
Anne
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]6/8/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] -7
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] -420
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $-46.48
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 0 [B]Seconds:[/B] -72269
