Posted on: Fri, Jul 3 2009 7:04 PM
Posted by: afo49guy
Posts: 789
Scipilot
Good for you.You`ve got 4 months under your belt already.
That process of quitting is broken down into six steps.Since you`ve already been through steps 1 -4, I`ll just mention them in this post.
1) Precontemplation never thought about quitting.
2 Contemplation-have thought about quitting, are waiting for a motivating event to help find reasons to quit.
3) Action-have quit smoking.
4) Maintenance - you`ve quit smoking but are in the first year of staying quit.After a full year of not smoking, you can claim success at cessation,
5) This stage of the process can be a bit tricky. It is ominously called Relapse. A return to smoking after a period of not smoking. FIRST TIME QUITTERS ARE SUCCESSFUL 25 % OF THE TIME; others need to make another attempt. In fact most smokers need to try to quit at least three times before it works.Look at it this way -PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
6) Renewed Action - PLEASE NOTE THAT 75% of the smokers will have to pass through this step to become a nonsmoker.
All I can tell you is that I spent A LOT of time in stages 5 and 6. It took me a lot more than three tries before i finally got it right.But apparently the countless number of times I, ollie, tried to quit I, eventually did pay off!
Scipilot, I think you`ll do it in a lot fewer tries that it took me.No matter waht happens, keep at it til it works. later, I`ll put the whole thing in a blog post. ollie
I came, I saw, I didn`t get out of there unscathed.
