Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Smoking is not an option!

 


I do not use nicotine anymore, and I have not since 2/4/98. I spent many years trying to quit on my own, and I would always relapse after taking one puff. It got me every time.  I lucked in finding other recovering nicotine addicts in a chat room on AOL called "Healant". They had many 12-step recovery meetings, but they had none for us nicotine addicts. So, I got to watch a Nicotine Anonymous meeting grow online. It only takes two to make a meeting, and it works. It was first just me and Hazel. She was a face-to-face friend trying to quit, too. She made it 2 years before I found my quit date that last. It took meetings for me to get it. The program does work if you work it.

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