HAPPY NEW YEAR

FROM

   

BOO                         &                 SPIKE

HENRY & LUCY

May you & yours have a snuggly, safe, happy, and enlightening 02005. We need a new year, don't we?

To celebrate, visit the Carnival of the Dogs, the Carnival of the Cats, and Friday Ark.

I never make New Year resolutions, but this year I am, and I announce it here to make it real:  as of tomorrow, next year, I am a non-smoker. 

Wish me luck (or perseverance, or determination, or whatever it takes.)

Comments

[Michael Nobbs]

Good luck with giving up smoking.

Thinking of you.

Happy New Year from Wales

[Sarpy Sam]

Good luck on giving up smoking. The one and only time I tried to quit smoking I succeeded. 13 years ago. I still want to smoke but I don't. You can quit. I'm proof.

[Lynn]

A very happy new year to you too! :)

[deb]

Good luck! I quit over a year ago, SB, and it was the best thing I ever did for myself. Ever. I smoked nearly 30 years - was 2 pack a day for most of that time. I'll be in the background here cheering you on. You CAN do this. I promise. The best part of all, SB, is how much BETTER I feel physically (and so will YOU)!

[Sidharth Varma]

Hey even i want to quit smoking. I ll do this along with you. Let's see who wins.

All the best. May GOD be with you.

Sidharth Varma

[Dave]

Good luck!!!

Do you like apples? That's one thing I did - ate an apple every time I craved a smoke. Two other things that worked for me (but may not for you): I convinced myself that that three to four days of lightheadedness and extreme craving were fun, a kind of inside-out drug high; plus, I told myself I wasn't really quitting, just taking a long break from smoking to see if I could do it. I still sometimes puff on a cigar - maybe two or three times a year, tops. For me, that all-or-nothing pressure, the feeling that I can never have another smoke as long as I live, always induced despair, precipitating backsliding. Better not to have anything to backslide from! But everyone's different.

[Ken]

And a most wonderous New Year to you!

I actually also quite smoking -- for real about 10 years ago, and before that for all practical purposes about 24 years ago. You CAN DO IT -- do it for Boo, Spike, Henry and Lucy!

[Kim]

Good luck, and I will be thinking good things for you.

Happy New Year! :D

[SB]

Thank you all for your good wishes --

This should be a challenge easily met. Years ago I was a 2-pack-a-day smoker, then quit except for travel -- then an off-and-on smoker -- and now, for about a year, I've been smoking four or five a day.

This timing is excellent -- today is cold and blizzardy, no day to be sitting in the garden, wrapped against the weather, doing something that's not good for me.

Three cigarettes to go.

[Somewhat]

Good luck with giving up smoking. If you haven't already, please get a copy of Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Give Up Smoking -- it's just incredible. I stopped smoking the same day I read it, haven't had one since (five years!!), and I was always the militant smoker who would never give up.

Happy New Year!

[Cathy]

Happy New Year Sharon!!! Hopefully the new year will be a lot better for you.

[Tony James]

That's great! It's always inspiring to see the support for people who wants to quit smoking. I have been an ex-smoker myself for 15 years. That is why I know exactly how it feels and also how to deal with the withdrawal symptoms and the psychological aspect of it.

I now publish a newsletter to help people quit smoking with ease without the discomfort of cravings.

It is at:

http://www.easyquitsmokingsecrets.com/

Feel free to subscribe to it,

All the best to attaining a smoke-free life!