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KellyJean



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PostPosted: June 3, 2005 11:34 AM    Post subject: These have helped me... Reply with quote

I read both of these during my major cravings. They help....

"TRYING to quit" is an uncommitted declaration of leaving something behind.
Tell yourself recovery is HARD and unless you're lying it will be.
Believe your craves to be INTENSE and intense will be the ride.
Ponder excuses for a FIX and you’ll eventually get to use them.
If you think you might RELAPSE, then relapse you just might.
If you keep telling yourself you will FAIL, then chances are you will.
If you WANT to be a ex-smoker, your mind has yet to heal.

Allow honest DREAMS to fuel recovery and freedom you shall find.
View this challenge as WONDERFUL and fulfillment will arrive.
See the GLORY of today, then glory it will be!
Praise the HEALING of your body and set your spirit free.
Inhale the JOYS of today, feel the spender of the journey.
Yet be TRUTHFUL of the past, to protect the here and now.
BELIEVE yourself a ex-smoker, an ex-smoker you shall see.
NEVER take another puff and freedom it will be!


AND


PLEASE QUIT

Smokers are a special breed,
who say they have an urgent need
to smoke when bored, or under stress,
from bills, to wills--and life I guess.
And then when sick, or told to quit,
they try, but some have to admit,
they're hooked, and struggle as they might,
the cigarettes are hard to fight.
"Just one wont hurt", they softly say,
trying to find an easy way.
They talk themselves into just one,
then realize the harm is done.
One turns to ten, and then some more.
They smoke as many as before!
Poor lungs complain--they cough and spit.
Say something and they'll have a fit!
Frustration, anger at one's self,
is vented on those trying to help.
"Stop preaching at me all the time,"
is a favorite smoker's line.
"When you complain, I smoke some more.
To calm my nerves is what is for".
The fight goes on, for years sometimes,
with smokers handing out those lines.
While all the time they know they're lying!
Deep down inside they know they're dying!
Some lucky ones can break away,
but others in their grave will lay.
How sad is each one's shortened life!
How lonely for each grieving wife,
or husband, parent, child, or friend,
who suffered with them 'till the end.
An empty void, that once was filled
with vital life, which now is stilled,
remains for those they left behind.
Those left, reach deep inside, and find,
a poultice for their troubled mind.
The memories, both bad and good,
do what no words from others could.
The good ones comfort and bring near,
sweet moments, watered with a tear.
The bad ones are a lesson in life,
for parent, child, husband, or wife.
How we use what we have learned,
Will touch the lives of all concerned.
For those of us who still will smoke,
remember what it's like to choke,
and struggle for each gasping breath,
until released in peaceful death.
Consider those who're left behind,
Quit now, and surely you will find,
that with God's help, your choice to live,
to loved ones as a gift can give.
by Brenda Fry
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kevin
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PostPosted: June 3, 2005 1:35 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

these are great, kellyjean! thanks for posting them! Smile
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kannprint



Quit Date:
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Posts: 4988
Location: St. Louis, MO

PostPosted: June 4, 2005 3:44 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for posting, Kellyjean. I copied the second one and put it in my "Freedom Folder."
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Barbara K.



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Posts: 5977

PostPosted: June 4, 2005 4:25 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

KellyJean,

Thank you so much for sharing this. I especially liked this one particular phase.


"Ponder Excuses for a fix, and you'll eventually get to use them."


I have learned to tell myself over and over with my quit, there is no excuse to smoke. It has saved my behind many a time. I listen to my loved ones, one of them with emphysema, still making up excuses why they cannot quit or when they try to quit why they cannot stick to it.

Many Blessings,

P.S. The poem was neat also and I really enjoyed it.
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Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn arouind and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Blessings,
Barbara K.
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