2012 HOF Speeches

Eye On the Prize – Keep Your Focus

ntartick avatar100 days ago I started a journey to gain my freedom from a 15 year oppressor. The journey has been long and has had it’s ups and downs, but I have always had my brothers beside me. To name everyone that helped me along the way would be a lot to type and read, but thank you to all my brothers for keeping me accountable and on the straight and narrow.

As I look back, there are many things that distracted me from my quit. Life issues, quit symptoms, apathy and in general the “I don’t care’s”. Whenever I lost my quit focus I would log on and get a prescription from my brothers. Usually they would diagnose the problem and prescribe me a dose of “man the fuck up and quit”.

Being able to focus on the following things will help you maintain a successful quit:

  1. Focus on posting roll
  2. Focus on keeping your promise
  3. Focus on one day at a time
  4. Focus on your long term goals (i.e. 100 days, 200 days….etc.)
  5. Focus on helping your quit brothers
  6. Focus on keeping that shit out of your lip
  7. Focus on freedom
  8. Focus on the savings
  9. Focus on the health risks
  10. Focus on the health benefits

I’ve been asked by a few friends and family members how I was able to quit. The answer is simple, I have all of my brothers to help keep me focused.

My journey is not over and in the grand scheme of things it has just begun, but I am proud to be continuing on this path with my brothers of quit.

NOTE: This piece written by KillTheCan.org forum member ntartick

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Kenneth Hart
8 years ago

Now 5 1/2 months nicotine free after kicking a can a day habit. First 3 months sucked. I don’t miss it anymore and whereas the smell used to entice me I don’t even care for it. Hardest part was the nostalgia of “ohhh wasn’t it nice to just sit and work on a project with a big tasty dip in…” maybe. Not anymore. Every day past month one I said to myself “Okay you’re 30 days + 1 +2 … etc” since I hadn’t gone longer than 30 days without nicotine since age 12. Now being 30 feels like leaving a whole part of my life (almost 2/3) of it is turning into distant memory. When I hit 1 year and I’ve proved to myself I’m not going back looking forward to getting my teeth cleaned and fixed up. That craps hard on the enamel man.

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