Oh Dear purpleiris your secret's out, so sorry Sweetheart....If you can start visualizing yourself as the Winning Quitter again, even if just glimpses...don't beat yourself up so hard, Big loves to you.

purpleiri To bad my friend you have my hand and Shell7 hand reaching out. All you have to do is reach out both of yours and we will help you up, give you a little push and you will be with us Celebrating on Christmas Day. Come on, you can do it. Plese, I want you my friend to be here next year to Celebrate Christmas 2008. I not one to ask someone for anything, but I am now asking you try for my sake. Love you if you smoke or not.

Ah, Ol' Nic's "just one" trick got you. You gotta watch that demon, he's a sneaky one. Tell you any lie he can to lure you back. You really do have to stay on your toes with him.

I don't know about anyone else here, but you have NOT let ME down. As far as I'm concerned, you've only let yourself down. Nor are you a failure in my book. You've slipped again. As you put it, "hit the emotional bump in the road". Slips happen. "Look not where you fell, but where you slipped."
- Vai proverb, Liberia

You are no failure. A failure would smoke, then slink away with tail between legs and we'd never hear of it. You are still a winner because you are still here wanting to quit.

Peace and blessings to you.
Shevie
Quit May, 2005

So you slipped...it sucks, but you spent a good part of your life chained to a cigarette, even though freedom is nice, it's stressful, we are here for you...I'm about to smoke my last cigarette before I go to bed and when I wake up tomorrow I'm going to be a non-smoker and I have faith you will join that club soon...permantatly

Hey Iris! Slips happen. It's sort of like falling off a bicycle. You pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start again. Do a little soul searching here and try to identify what made you decide you could smoke "just that one" Triggers are everywhere but being able to identify them really helps to get past them. You know the fact that you even talk about quitting qgain tells me that in your heart of hearts you want to be a nonsmoker. You CAN do this, you are not a fraud! You spoke the truth here and that's not easy. Pick your new quit date, read up on addiction, gather up your quit aids and let's do this...one day at a time. C'mon, you know you want to live smoke free and you are soooooo worth it!

My "slip" was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me in my quit, because when I went back on track, I KNEW I wanted to quit. I knew I wanted it more than anything.
You wouldn't be here if you didn't want to live free from cigarettes. You can do this, friend. If I can do it, I know anyone can do it.

Don't apologize and certainly don't get down on yourself. It is perfectly normal. There are those who think us smokers and ex smokers are bad people. Don't ever fall for that trap. You tried and it didn't work this time. Maybe next time or the time after that. What is important is that you tried and I believe that you will try again. I am only 3 weeks into my quit and I hope this is the last time I go though this and stick with it but if it isn't I will try again. Good Luck and have a wonderful weekend.

We have 9 days to go, where is all the ones who quit. You can do it. The new ones is welcome, lets make it a SMOKE FREE MERRY CHRISTMAS.

...........let's remember that purpleiris had a slip but is back on track to the tune of I think 8 days!!!!!

Yes, I screwed up and was very bad. That just made me more determined. I did a lot of reading on addiction and I quit again. I am still in this challenge. 7 days quit; working on day 8.

Glad to hear you are back off the smokes, remember to think of yourself as a non-smoker and not an ex-smoker and you'll kick them out of your life for good.

Okay sweetie, you slipped. Now dust your shoulders off and go for it. You can do it. We all have faith in you. You're a winner in our eyes.