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begins with a single step ~ That's the popular version of this old Chinese Proverb. A more accurate translation however, would be:
Meaning, quite simply, without movement of some kind we're stagnant -- otherwise known as procrastinating.
Aren't we all guilty of this? Especially us smokers --
"I'll quit tomorrow ... or after this pack ... or next week, next month, next year... "
There's a medical commercial I hear on the radio that states the number one health risk men face is procrastination.
Procrastination is almost always costly whether we're talking about Kicking the habit or paying our taxes or fixing that 'funny noise' our car is making.
Its the same question I posed in my Letter To Pammy:
It's hard to calculate the high cost I've already paid due to my own procrastination. At least I've finally taken my first step in my thousand mile journey!
Nice still plugging along. Missed you yesterday. If not now then when? That was always my problem, never wanted to stop during the week, always thought it would be easier on myself if I stopped on the week end, do not ask me why I felt this way, I smoked more on the weekends than I did during the week. My problem now is what to do with all the time I used to spend smoking, I go out in the back yard all the time and just stand there not knowing what to do, it's too hot out there to just hang out (Phoenix Az). I guess I need to find a new hobbie.
ReplyDelete"Smoke Free"???
ReplyDeleteBut what about the children?
They'll have no health care if we don't smoke; besides aren't you concerned about winding up with a tar deficiency?
Congratulations on your choice to stop this sickening habit. I too stopped smoking April 13, 1991. Up to five packs a day for 17 years.
ReplyDeleteI am fatter now but as luck would have it, I was involved in an auto accident where the extra fat saved me from being killed or at least paralyzed. My surgeon said to remind the next doctor that tells me I am obese that I would be dead if I was skinny.
Smoking killed my father. He had a lung removed and lived 16 more years. All was going great until he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Let me tell you; seeing a person you love and admire die from that would stop all but the most die-hard of smokers.
You can make it, one minute, one hour, and one day at a time. Whatever is the easiest for you, just tell yourself "I may smoke again someday, but I am not going to smoke this minute, hour, day, whatever...."
Something that might help you is Emotional Freedom Technique. EFT=great stuff! God bless you and good luck!