We all start with good intentions to quit smoking, save money, or when we are thinking of something else we can change in our lives for our New Year’s resolution. When you think about it, and I don’t think it’s a subject you have to think long and hard about, how many people do you know keep their New Year’s Resolution? Not many, I’m sure.
I can honestly say that I am definitely someone who has constantly made silent promises to myself over the last five to seven years. The reason I stopped telling anyone about them was the feeling of failure that came after I didn’t or didn’t follow through on my New Year’s resolution(s) for whatever reason.
It’s only in the last two years that I’ve started sticking to any of the New Year’s Resolutions I can remember making with a clear head if you know what I mean. One was to smoke and the second was to save more money.
I’ll tell you my little secret for both of you and I hope it helps you or someone else you may know. Of course, things don’t happen exactly when we want them to and I’ve come to learn that the hard way, but at least I learned, right?
Even though I wanted to quit smoking and wondered how so many other people quit cold turkey, I couldn’t get to the point where I was ready to quit like that. One day, out of the blue, I went to the doctor’s office for something that I now don’t quite remember what it was for. I started talking to him about cigarettes and how they made me feel, which was good. Long before he knew it, he wrote me a prescription for Chantix (I’m not a spokesperson for this company) and he explained how powerful it was and all the side effects it could have. At that time I was not yet committed to giving up my Newports (I am not a spokesperson for this company either) but I began taking the pills with my meals as directed. Long before I knew it, my cravings for nicotine started subsiding in about a week and a half and it was a terrifying feeling.
For as long as I can remember, there was never a time when the craving for nicotine was this weak, until I forced myself to hold the cigarette and take Yaz (my dog) for a walk because I mentally knew that was my usual time to smoke and breathe. below. I eventually had to stop, and when I say I had to, I’m not kidding, the craving was completely gone. I was afraid that once I stopped taking the medication it would come back and I haven’t yet. It’s over a year and I’ve been on the drug for about a month and a half. So now I’m one of the people who got their New Year’s resolution thanks to Pfizer for making Chantix. See where there is a will there is a way and never forget it.
As for saving money, that was and is a priority for me and I hope for you. To save money, quitting solved that (two birds with one stone).
