Eye On the Prize – Keep Your Focus
100 days ago I started a journey to gain my freedom from a 15 year oppressor. The journey has been long and has had it’s ups and downs, but I have always had my brothers beside me. To name everyone that helped me along the way would be a lot to type and read, but thank you to all my brothers for keeping me accountable and on the straight and narrow.
As I look back, there are many things that distracted me from my quit. Life issues, quit symptoms, apathy and in general the “I don’t care’s”. Whenever I lost my quit focus I would log on and get a prescription from my brothers. Usually they would diagnose the problem and prescribe me a dose of “man the fuck up and quit”.
Being able to focus on the following things will help you maintain a successful quit:
- Focus on posting roll
- Focus on keeping your promise
- Focus on one day at a time
- Focus on your long term goals (i.e. 100 days, 200 days….etc.)
- Focus on helping your quit brothers
- Focus on keeping that shit out of your lip
- Focus on freedom
- Focus on the savings
- Focus on the health risks
- Focus on the health benefits
I’ve been asked by a few friends and family members how I was able to quit. The answer is simple, I have all of my brothers to help keep me focused.
My journey is not over and in the grand scheme of things it has just begun, but I am proud to be continuing on this path with my brothers of quit.
NOTE: This piece written by KillTheCan.org forum member ntartick
Now 5 1/2 months nicotine free after kicking a can a day habit. First 3 months sucked. I don’t miss it anymore and whereas the smell used to entice me I don’t even care for it. Hardest part was the nostalgia of “ohhh wasn’t it nice to just sit and work on a project with a big tasty dip in…” maybe. Not anymore. Every day past month one I said to myself “Okay you’re 30 days + 1 +2 … etc” since I hadn’t gone longer than 30 days without nicotine since age 12. Now being 30 feels like leaving a whole part of my life (almost 2/3) of it is turning into distant memory. When I hit 1 year and I’ve proved to myself I’m not going back looking forward to getting my teeth cleaned and fixed up. That craps hard on the enamel man.