The YES or NO Moment.

This is the moment after your quit has already started where the withdrawal and initial thrill has worn off. You still feel the residuals from smoking...anxiety, deep breathes, grumpy, agitated etc.

Something triggers you and you start to crave a cigarette. You start looking for the easy way out of the semi-uncomfortable feeling you are having. It doesn't matter the issue. What matters is that you found an excuse to smoke and now you are in that limbo moment where you are on the fence about flushing your precious quit down the drain, or keeping it and moving forward.

THIS IS THE YES OR NO MOMENT.

This is the 1st moment where the reality has sunk in that you are quitting and you can't have a puff on a cigarette to try and get that temporary relief. In that moment you are forgetting that one puff on a cigarette does not really relieve withdrawal, it starts withdrawal. We see it backwards. This cigarette you think you want so bad was and is the catalyst to the present state you are in, along with all the baggage that goes along with being a smoker.

In all reality it is a simple proposition. It is a YES or NO situation.


If you smoke;

you'll go back to your same level of usage
It'll break down your resolve.
It'll enforce those junky lies that get you believing quitting is impossible.
You'll agree to being a slave again


If you don't smoke;

You'll feel that personal wave of accomplishment flow over you and give you a new confidence.

You'll be free of an unknown amount of time you would be stuck in relapse-land trying to find freedom from all the fear, guilt and loneliness.

You'll have proven the inner junkie's lies wrong and feel empowered by your own decision...a decision you have wanted to make for who knows how long.

Beat the YES or NO moment. Look it straight in the eye, even if it makes you cry, and say

NO...THIS TIME I WILL NOT SMOKE! THIS TIME I AM IN CHARGE!

Adam