Me and you
Reading the posts tonight, it seems to me that my involvement in the
group has resulted in at least three general reactions:
interest/enjoyment, hostility and indifference. This is pretty much
normal, `cos it’s a bit like life that’s the effect you are going
to have on people whether you like it or not. Just to get things
into context
It is very hard to quit smoking. It is one of the hardest things you
will do in your life, unless you never took to the habit or are dead
already. I think current stats. are that at any one time 33% of
smokers are trying to stop, and of that 33%, 90% of them fail to be
still quit at a specified time interval later (I can’t remember)
maybe 3 months or 6 months or a year. After going through the trauma
of a quit, the majority of people resume a smoking habit. This I
find both tragic and appalling. The cigarette is a seductive
companion, as the tobacco companies know full well.
After trying to quit the chemical addiction for two years, I found a
way to make a leap of faith (with outside help) and I threw the smoky
things away. Little did I know at this point that the battle was
only begun.
Then I stumbled over Steve’s website. What an eloquent piece of
work. I joined the user group and got a direct conduit for `chatting
to the man’ the man who says I can make the quit stick if I do the
work. And maybe I rode roughshod over the group or maybe I just
asked the questions `cos I needed to know. From my perspective (as
for all of us) it was part of a personal quest to be `captain of my
ship’ again and in control of my life. That’s all. I didn’t mean to
piss anyone off.
Phil