Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...... its about learning to dance in the rain.

REALLY listen to the words in this song and APPLY them to your life!!


Those convinced against their will… are of the same opinion still

There is none so blind as those who will not see.
Some Candid advice from Dr. Bob, lol.
REMEMBER... Wanting the craving to go away is NOT the same thing as wanting a cigarette!!

Nicotine doesn’t relieve it, it causes it....Allen Carr

DON'T GIVE UP BY GIVING IN!

Would you rather be a quitter who sometimes thinks about smoking, or a smoker who ALWAYS thinks about quitting?

Some encouraging words:
What happens to us during the course of our lives is not nearly as important as how we react to it. Thank goodness our reactions are our choice.

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. More times than not, we will get what we expect.

Smokers don’t get to smoke. They have to smoke.

If you're happy with who you are, where you're at and what you have - keep doing what you've been doing. But, if you want to be something you've never been, go somewhere you've never gone, or have something you've never had - you have to do something that you've never done.

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Cigarette: A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in between.

You gotta give it away to keep it.

The task ahead of you is never as great as the power behind you.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have.

The cigarette does the smoking - you're just the sucker

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settle for.

If you expect great things from folks, they will expect it from themselves.

Sooner or later, everyone stops smoking.

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Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.

The future you see is the future you get.

A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying.

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Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me !

Do or do not. There is no try.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The only safer cigarette is your last one.

What you get by achieving your goal is not as important as what you become by achieving your goal.

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

YOU CAN TO THIS!!!!IF SOMEONE LIKE ME CAN BECOME A HAPPY AND WELL-ADJUSTED NON-SMOKER, SO CAN ANY OF YOU!!

Make your own Countdown Clocks

AHHHHH!!! I'M STRESSING AND I NEED A CIGARETTE!! Cheryl's blog will shed some new light on your dilemma so please click here first!

Do you need to hear that you can quit... NO MATTER WHAT? Click here and read Papa Jimmy's VERY wise words!


* * * LINKS TO MY BLOGS * * *
Do you know what QuitTude is? It's what'll get you to your goal! Click here to find out more.

Do you feel that you're "giving up" smoking? Click here for a different perspective.

Do ya want some start up advice from an old timer? Click here.

Are you thinking about smoking that one cigarette? Quick!! Click here to read this first!

Do you need some inspiration to choose to be positive every day? Click here

Are you needing some real-deal input about ‘trying’ to quit? Click here

Do you want to see a collaborative and powerful list of the actuality of our smoking? This ones for you.

Are you interested in some insightful things that were learned by those who’ve gone before you? Click here

Are you struggling and don’t know why? This might shed a little light.

Do you need to hear that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel – and it isn’t a train? Click here

Do you want the real scoop on cravings? Click here

Are you ready for a funny, “I SO-can relate to that” rendition of the steps that lead to quitting? Click here

Are you Craving? Jonesing for a smoke? Nic-fittin’ like crazy? This might help you put things into perspective.

Are you ready for a bit of quit honesty about this darned quit? Click here

Do you feel like you’re n a roller coaster ride? Click here

Did something “make” you upset? Click here

Need a few inspirational tidbits that might make you feel stronger? Click here

Want to know the advantages of being a smoker? Click here

Is smoking on your mind… constantly? Click here

Ever wonder what in the heck all these long-term quitters are doing hanging around a quit smoking support site? Click here for the answer.

Do you think you’re just more addicted then others and that’s why you “can’t” quit as easily? Click here for a must read for you.

Do you feel that you NEED your cigarettes? Click here

What’s going on with these withdrawals? Wanna know the science behind your nicotine addiction? Click here

Did you know that simply wishing that you didn't smoke is not even close to being the same as wanting to quit? Click here for the explanation

Do you need a quick little positive thought for the day? Click here

Do things seem to be spinning out of control? Click here

Are you wondering what we’re all doing here on Ex anyway? Here’s an analogy for ya.

Do you need help putting this addiction into perspective? Click here

Wanna know my feelings about a relapse? Click here

Wanna know what it takes to NOT relapse? Click here

Do you like poetry? Here’s a great quit smoking poem for you.

Click here for… A quick reminder to stand strong

Click here for… See, even elders have smoking dreams


My personal quit stories…
Are you interested in what MY quit was like early on? Want to “compare where I was at any given point in my early quit to where you are at the same time? Are you wondering if us ‘elders’ struggled with the same issues as you… or are you thinking that my quit was all peaches and cream? Read the details here… Some actual posts of my in-the-moment, crawling-out-of-my-skin early quit posts.

My Hell Week – Week #1

My Heck Week and Weak Week – Weeks 2 and 3

My weeks 4 through 8

The beginning of my second month

The end of my second month

My month #3

4 months for me

My 5th month

WoooHooo… 6 months for me!!

My month #7

My first Thanksgiving – I would have been at 9-1/2 months

Just venting about my daughter being a smoker…