Quit Smoking Mantras
Mantras to reinforce our resolve to stay quit!


Thanks to Judy Halaby for starting these off
Judy sez: "These are the mantras that I have collected (with your help) over the past couple of days. Thank you all for sharing. These mantras really help me. (I know there are millions more tidbits of wisdom in the minds of my blairsville companions.....)"

Kathyg: "Better (to carry around) fat than an oxygen tank" .
Richard: "Hell, if the dam breaks, we'll all just learn to swim".
Bob: "There's a lot more to quitting smoking than quitting smoking"
Cyberjack “I won't smoke, EVEN IF MY ASS FALLS OFF”.
Kathyg: "I will not smoke, even if my ‘chins’ fall off".
The woman who had the sores in her mouth: “I won't smoke, EVEN IF MY MOUTH FALLS OFF”.
Tommyboy: “Smoking is not now, nor will it ever be, the solution to anything”.
Tami: “Keep the faith”.
Wayne: “I didn't do this to make my life easier -- I did it to make my life better”.
Wayne: “Compared to Forever, this is Small Potatoes” .
Contributed by (but not attributed to) Jerry: ” I'm just a puff away from a pack a day!” and “Smoking is a crisis in and of itself” .
Contributed by Bob, attributed to Tommyboy: "Better to be in a foul mood for a short time than dead for a long time" .
Amoree : “Today is the first day of the BEST of your life!”
Contributed by Rita, attributed to Donald: “Don’t look back, you're not going that way”.
Contributed by MaryAnne, attributed to her friend who said: "I'd rather come to visit and find you fat, than come to visit and find you dead".
Contributed by Bob, attributed to Tommyboy: “You look better draped in a moo-moo than a funeral ensemble".
Glynis: “Nico's filth, Nico's smut, Stub him out and kick his butt!”.
Michael: "Fight the Good Fight" .
Joyce: “Keepin’ the quit and keepin’ the faith".
Amey: “I am worth it!".
Winnie: "Smoking is NOT AN OPTION".
Freddy: "Death to the Fat Guys".
Donald: "Quitting smoking is a matter of Life and Breath".
Suggested by Lisa attributed to Anonymous: The cravings will pass whether you smoke or not - so don't smoke!".
Tommyboy: "Cigarettes got PEE in them".
novi: "Free Breathing Restored".
Joanne: "Hold on to your VICTORY --- Hold on to your LIFE!"
Submitted by Tommyboy attributed to Jonie: "Keep those quits and quitmeters running .........".
Submitted by Charlene - words by Bob Marley: "Don't worry 'bout a thing, cause every little thing's gonna be alright."
Sean: "Proud to be a Quitter"
Submitted by Terri Fjaagesund attributed to Zep "Breathe deep, hug hard, live long"
Luanne "Smoke free today and everyday...no butts about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Eve "Breathing Deeply cuz I CAN!!!!!!!"
Dean Loring "Zero = Life; One = Infinity."
Laurie B "Smoking is the cause of the pain you are in-NOT the solution."
Jonie "Keep those quits and quitmeters running"
barry88 "One cigarette never was and never will be enough !!!"
Binty "Cancer is the "gift" smokers give themselves!"
twilight "My life is mine....and I'm taking it back from the nicodemon a little at a time (but the chunks I'm taking are getting bigger)!!!"
Lisa "I don't smoke, I don't need to smoke I don't even like smoking"
Kathy E "Do anything but smoke, sing, yell, dance, cry, walk, post, post, post, etc., etc."
Peaches "Today I choose not to smoke."
Yellowone(Erin) "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but cigarettes WILL kill me!!!!"
Julianna "A short time in hell is worth a life time of freedom."
Christie "I'd rather be a non-smoker who SOMETIMES thinks about a cigarette, THAN a smoker who is ALWAYS thinking about quitting."
Beth "I will not bring a serial killer into my home and invite him to kill me."
Nancy "I saved myself and I thank me."
Rhetor "Yes, everyone dies sometime, but do we have to PAY for it?"
Robyn Tomlin
"Clean kisses. Clean kissssseeeessss.
Cigarettes are not my friend. I am my friend.
Keep in in perspective.It's a drug. drug! drug!
I want to know life as a non smoker.
Open your eyes. Smell the smoke!"
anexs (Scott) "Never ever give in to your addicted mind"
mbkk "don't quit quitting.."
Jackie Goreham "I am not going through withdrawal, I am going through recovery".
Henrik: "I shot the Malboro Man"
Dave Samples
1.) What doesnt kill me, only makes me stronger (Nietzche)

2.) I have not failled 10,000 times, I have successfully found 10,000 ways that do not
work. (Thomas A.Edison)

3.) Just about everyone that has successfully quit smoking, has failed at least one or
more times, which if you think about it means that ultimately you are increasing your
odds of success, as long as you do not give up!

4.) Tenacity is the one trait that overpowers all faults (Ronald Reagan)


Kitty
"Stick and Stay it's Bound to PAY"
Pat
"Whatever it takes for as long as it takes"
Janet
"Quitting is hard; dying is harder"
Laluna
"Hold on to your quit, hold on for dear life - because your life is dear !"
John Miller
"This is life, there is no rehearsal."
dd
"Look what we are doing to our precious children."
Blair Lamere
"second by second, minute by minute, day by day, I will beat this......"
Syndi
There is a joy to pain
That holds the promise
of change for the better.
Maria Flanagan
We will only feel worse if we give in......
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Melissa
"Illegitimis non carborundum."
Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down."
Jean
"1. I am a chronic, compulsive, nicotine abuser"
"2. Life is the drug of my choice"
Bev
"I want to dance at my (new) grandson's wedding."
Freeman
"I'm smoke free - This century!!"
Shannon
"If I quit now, I'll never regret it. If I don't quit now, I'll always regret it."
Contributed by Dona, attributed to Sunshyne.
Hal Bodreau
"No matter how I feel, or what situation I am in, Smoking is not an option it is a death sentence."
Dona
"ONE PUFF and my Quit is History"
Kimmus
"Nope I'm not gonna smoke... that's in my past.
My future is much clearer, and healthier."
Russell
"A quit is for life not just for christmas"

Ldortona
"It sucks to re-set!"

Mary Beth
"Nicotine withdrawals won't Kill you...but inhaling it will!"

Barb attributed to Nicanon:
"Write before you light"
"A Puff away from a pack a day"

TomG
"Feeling the Miracle"
Wendy:
"Not always easy......but certainly worth it!"

Janet Kish
"Lighting candles not cigarettes"

Christine of The No Smoke Cafe
"Quitting smoking never killed anybody, but the reciprocal is not true."

Bryan
" Smoking will not cause you to go to HELL. It just makes you smell like you've been there!!"
faery
"cigarettes are the problem NOT the solution"
Kurt
"bout time to do an "A-Butt" face with my life."
Gord
"Today my addiction goes "HUNGRY", because today I choose not to "FEED" it."

Vinod
"Me, one, Nicodemon, Zero... and thats the way it will remain"

Amy
1) “I don’t want to be a stinking butt sucker”
2) "I have walked too far to step back now"