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Repost:  An addict, is an addict, is an addict

Another excellent Gummer repost.  I may forever be an addict but I have the power to choose not to smoke.  I will be living my life in freedom  because I refuse to hand over my power and return to being a slave to my addiction.
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Cara
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An addict is an adict is an addict
From: gummer
Date: 2014-01-03 12:11:14 
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I am sure the new heroin user thinks his habit is fine and dandy at first, something that he enjoys and that makes life better.

How long do you suppose that honeymoon period lasts?

How long before he realizes he is trapped and there is real danger ahead that he had not considered?

How long before his drug makes him feel dreadful when he is using it... and also when he is not?

How long until he shoots up not because he wants it, but because he cannot stand how he feels when he does not get it?

In some ways smoking cigarettes is no different.

If you are sitting there "enjoying" it... don't fool yourself, you are still an addict.  An addict in the honeymoon stage.

If you are having trouble quitting, you already know you are an addict.  Have you realized yet that you feel bad NOT because you quit, but because you smoked for years...?  Are you seeing smoking yet as something you HAVE TO do just to feel like yourself?  Has your habit become a chore?  What's with that...?  Is that what you signed up to?  What happened to those carefree smokes you so enjoyed...?

Over the years smoking has morphed into something else, hasn't it?  Or maybe not... maybe it was always this way and you are only now coming to see it for it truly is!

If you really want to move on it's time to rethink what you are doing, to see smoking differently.  Try to think of nicotine as heroin instead, and you may just find the perspective you need to stay away from it.  Nicotine really is manipulating you in a similar way and you can only escape its clutches if you acknowledge how serious a situation it is.  This is not some innocuous habit.  Smoking is a hideous addiction... but you can beat it.  You can overcome it.  You can move beyond it and never look back.  But you have to see it for what it really is first.

You do not have to be an addict for the rest of your days.

You can be free again.

Gummer

Repost: An addict, is an addict, is an addict

Another excellent Gummer repost. I may forever be an addict but I have the power to choose not to smoke. I will be living my life in freedom because I refuse to hand over my power and return to being a slave to my addiction.
Have a great day.
Cara
D6980

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An addict is an adict is an addict
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