CM Celebrates 2 Smoke Free Years
Updated January 20, 2015.
Year two has just been about being me. Me living my every day run of the mill, extra-ordinary life...without smoking! Just me being me with the added bonus of extra lung capacity, not smelling like smoke, not coughing, not sick all the time, not constantly worrying about when I’d be told I had cancer, that I’d waited too long.
Just me being healthy happy wonderful me!
Ninety-nine percent of the time I feel like a non-smoker, which is to say that cigarettes and smoking don’t even cross my mind anymore ninety-nine percent of the time. The other one percent of the time is made up of those rare reminders that I am, in fact, an ex-smoker, not a non-smoker. They are good things, those one percent moments. They remind me that I am, and will always be a mere one puff away from complete and utter re-enslavement. I will never be a non-smoker (nor will I ever be a smoker!), but I know that as time goes on I’m going to feel like a non-smoker more and more of the time. I know that’s the truth because I am living that truth. With every day that passes, I know that I am that much further away, and those one percent moments will degrade into 0.1 percent moments and then to 0.01 pecent moments and so on and so on as each moment passes.
I fought to win my key to the 7 percent club. I celebrated every milestone along the way with great fervour (and chocolate cake).
And I won! Year two has not been a struggle. There has been absolutely no fighting...it has been a gentle, easy coast into the 80% club.
I am living proof that it is possible to re-train your mind to believe it is a non-smoker. Always remember that that’s all that quitting smoking is; it’s deciding that you are going to re-train your brain to become a non-smoker...it’s committing to allow the part of your brain that wants to be a non-smoker to win out over the part of your brain that is so well trained to smoke.
It’s simply a matter of mind over mind.
And it is possible. You just have to commit to participating in the process.
Good luck and good health to all!
CM's One Year Milestone
Freedom.
That’s what my celebration today is all about. Year two is absolutely...(drum roll please)...nothing extraordinary. Year two is extra-ORDINARY.Year two has just been about being me. Me living my every day run of the mill, extra-ordinary life...without smoking! Just me being me with the added bonus of extra lung capacity, not smelling like smoke, not coughing, not sick all the time, not constantly worrying about when I’d be told I had cancer, that I’d waited too long.
Just me being healthy happy wonderful me!
Ninety-nine percent of the time I feel like a non-smoker, which is to say that cigarettes and smoking don’t even cross my mind anymore ninety-nine percent of the time. The other one percent of the time is made up of those rare reminders that I am, in fact, an ex-smoker, not a non-smoker. They are good things, those one percent moments. They remind me that I am, and will always be a mere one puff away from complete and utter re-enslavement. I will never be a non-smoker (nor will I ever be a smoker!), but I know that as time goes on I’m going to feel like a non-smoker more and more of the time. I know that’s the truth because I am living that truth. With every day that passes, I know that I am that much further away, and those one percent moments will degrade into 0.1 percent moments and then to 0.01 pecent moments and so on and so on as each moment passes.
I fought to win my key to the 7 percent club. I celebrated every milestone along the way with great fervour (and chocolate cake).
And I won! Year two has not been a struggle. There has been absolutely no fighting...it has been a gentle, easy coast into the 80% club.
I am living proof that it is possible to re-train your mind to believe it is a non-smoker. Always remember that that’s all that quitting smoking is; it’s deciding that you are going to re-train your brain to become a non-smoker...it’s committing to allow the part of your brain that wants to be a non-smoker to win out over the part of your brain that is so well trained to smoke.
It’s simply a matter of mind over mind.
And it is possible. You just have to commit to participating in the process.
Good luck and good health to all!
CM's One Year Milestone
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