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Preparation: "Is today the day I quit?"
by Terry
Keene, New Hampshire
United States
I made a plan that I wanted to quit within a two year period.
Giving myself that long a period was "safe". I had been smoking
over 30 years, between two and three packs a day.
I had also read somewhere that for an alcoholic, it was in
picking up the drink that was the failing point, and I knew that
I could not even hold a cigarette in my hand, because previous
attempts at quitting included my thinking I could have "just
one".
I mentally prepared myself during this period of time, and every
night I said to myself (put a card with this next to my bed)
"Maybe tomorrow is the day I quit". When I woke in the morning,
I said "Is today the day I quit". For 18 months, my answer was
no.
Then one day the answer was yes.
It's thirteen years since I've had a cigarette.
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