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-image-Kicked off nicotine
Have you ever felt that the thing you usually do become the worsest thing you’ve done? This probably sounds weird, but this is what I felt on sunday, december 27th, 2009.
But, what did I feel? I felt I’m done with smoking,something in my heart said,”alright, vanes! It’s enough!! Enough with those cigarettes!” and I started to hate my smoking habit, I started to hate cigarette’s smoke.
After this day, I didn’t stop smoking directly but managed to smoke menthol cigarette and I smoked lesser.
Day 1 (monday): 4 cigarettes
Day 2 (tuesday): 3 cigarettes
Day 3 (wednesday): 2 cigarettes
Day 4 (thursday): 2 cigarettes
Day 5 (friday): none
and so on…!
This is a weird situation for me, because I had always been thinking that it’s very, very, very hard to stop smoking, but I have stopped without any difficulty. What I meant to say is that, before, when I tried to stop smoking, I felt sensitive, I felt like I was in a rush to buy something and I kept on counting the time about how many hours I haven’t smoked, and such.
More thing which I find weird is that people around asked me why I didn’t smoke when I was with them, and my friend discussed about smoking room when we were at church as if she already heard that I’m not a smoker anymore and wanted to know whether or not it’s true. Maybe it’s just my paranoid thought, but it made me tell her I’m not smoking anymore. I actually didn’t wanna tell it because I wanted to proove being non-smoker for longer time first before I started telling people that I’m a non-smoker now. When people around me asked why I didn’t smoke I only told them that I wasn’t in my mood to smoke.
When my dad bought his cigarette, I couldn’t stand his cigarette’s smoke and had to leave the living room, but as what smokers had told me earlier about stopping with smoking:
“Girl, I’ve tried to stop smoking, but whenever I was with my friends who are smokers, I felt like smoking again and here I am, smoking again!”
“Girl, I’ve tried to stop smoking, but all I felt was sensitiveness, I kept on grumbling, I felt mad the whole day and I felt that I missed something!”
“Girl, I’ve tried to stop smoking, but whenever I got problems, all I wanted was smoking to calm me down!”
Only one is valid for me: which is the first reason; I indeed felt like smoking after I found out that my dad had a cigarette. I did smoke one, but then I gave it back to him. I felt like smoking, but my body couldn’t stand it no more and cigarette’s smoke omg stinks big time!
Few people asked me how I stopped, honestly I don’t know. I had not planned to stop smoking neither. I didn’t chew nicotine chewing gum, I didn’t consult my doctor, I just didn’t smoke and it is the best logical way to stop smoking: don’t smoke and don’t buy cigarette (right?).
But, if you do have a plan to stop smoking, I have some advices here:
- Do something else, do something which makes you forget to smoke
- Buy lollipops so every time you wanna smoke you start to suck a lollipop instead
- Just imagine you’re with your non-smoker friends and you’re currently smoking; I’ll tell you what they probably think: you stink big time! So? Every time you want to start smoking, think about this stinkyness, you don’t want people to tell you stink, right? ;)
But the most important thing is: DO YOU REALLY WANT TO STOP?!?
Okay, I’m going to tell you another truth here:
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-image-The story of 3 trees
It’s true that we all have broken dreams, dreams that never come true! And God still stands above our broken dreams because He has a better, and greater dream for us!
Once upon a time, there were three trees in a forest, all of them were telling about their wishes and dreams.
The first tree said,”I want to be a treasure box. I’m going to be filled with gold, silver, and diamonds, and everyone’s going to be amazed of its gorgeousness”
The second tree said,”I want to be a big boat. I will accompany a king and sail all around the world. I am going to be a strong boat and everyone will feel safe to be with me.”
And then, the third tree told about his dream,”I want to be the tallest tree. All the people will look at me and think that I’m close by heaven and God. I will be the biggest tree and everyone’s going to remember me all the time.”
After having prayed for years, a group of people came to cut them off…
The first tree is brought to a carpenter. The tree was happy because it knew he’s going to make it a treasure box. But, its prayer didn’t become true because the carpenter made it a box of an animal feed. It’s only placed in a hutch and filled with hay every day.
The second tree is brought to a dockyard. It thought that its prayer would become true. But….it is cut in pieces and they made it a small fisherman’s boat. The dream of being a big boat was over.
The third tree is cut in big pieces and they just let it in a dark place.
Years passed, all those three trees have forgotten about their dreams. One day, a couple of wife and husband put their baby inside of the animal feed’s box which is made from the first tree. All the people came to worship him. The first tree eventually realised that it is filled with the greatest treasure. The baby. Another years passed, a group of men were in the fisherman boat which is made from the second tree. In the middle of the sea, a windstorm arose and the second tree thought he’s not able to protect them. But one of them awoke and rebuked the sea,”Peace! Be still!” then the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. The second tree realised that it had a King of all the kings inside!!
Someone came and took the third tree. He beared it on His shoulder on His way to Golgota, while everyone around insulted Him. His hands and feet are nailed on it and He died on the top of a hill. This third tree just realised that it was so near by God, because it was Jesus who has been crucified.
The moral of this story is: when the situation is not like what you’ve wished for, you’ve to know and believe that God has a plan for you. If you believe in Him, He will bless you. All of those three trees have gotten what they had wished for, but not in the same way which they had imagined. It goes the same with us, we never know what God plans for us. We only know that His way is not our way, but His way is the best way for us.
