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    You Too Can Quit
    You Too Can Quit
    You Too Can Quit
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    You Too Can Quit

    By BD Nelson

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    This is a proven step-by-step method, written by a heavy smoker while quitting. Get through the roughest times by following five easy steps. This basic proven method can help stop any addictive habit; you just need to want it.
    Learn by the authors mistakes how you can quit—stay quit and enjoy doing it. In this book the author shares all her secrets on how to climb on top of those withdrawals and grind them into dust.

    You too can be free of the nasty habit and start living a brand new life!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBD Nelson
    Release dateApr 17, 2011
    ISBN9781458179531
    You Too Can Quit
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    BD Nelson

    BD Nelson is a down to earth Oregonian, who loves to camp, fish, garden, and go on nature walks. She loves children, dogs and hanging out with her friends—nothing out of the ordinary, until it comes to her writing. Writing has been her passion from childhood. The choice of mystery/thriller being BD Nelson’s preferred genre, both in reading and writing, suspense being her main topic of interest. Whether she’s snuggled up next to her hubby watching a movie, cuddled up on the couch with a good book, or having lunch with her best friend, BD Nelson’s mind churns out scenes for a new story.

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      You Too Can Quit - BD Nelson

      You Too Can Quit

      Confessions of a hardcore smoker

      By

      BD Nelson-Littrell

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright BD Nelson-Littrell

      ISBN: 978-1460961902

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission from the Author except by a reviewer to quote a brief passage in a review.

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Other titles by BD Nelson http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bdnelson

      BD Nelson www.bdnelsonlittrell.com

      Morrison Books www.morrisonbooks.com

      About the Author

      Becky Littrell is an author of suspense, writing under the pen name, BD Nelson. She is a down to earth Oregonian, who loves to camp, fish, garden, and go on nature walks. She loves children, dogs and hanging out with her friends—nothing out of the ordinary, until it comes to her writing.

      Writing has been her passion from childhood. The choice of suspense/thriller being BD Nelson’s preferred genre, both in reading and writing, suspense being her main topic of interest. Whether she’s snuggled up next to her hubby watching a movie, cuddled up on the couch with a good book, or having lunch with her best friend, BD Nelson’s mind churns out scenes for a new story.

      Although a self-help book is out of the norm, it just seemed appropriate coming from a writer/hardcore smoker who found a way to kick it. Yet it isn’t so unusual considering her first book was for pre-school age children.

      If you enjoy a good spine tingle, you may want to pick up one of her thrilling novels to enjoy while you journey into the quitting program. All her novels are listed on bdnelsonlittrell.com and Morrisonbooks.com.

      Meanwhile BD Nelson will be diligently working on yet another novel; sure to satisfy her thrill seeking fans.

      Other Titles by This Author:

      Abigail’s Cries

      Each page Karen Tyler pens fuels the fires of her own nightmares and by the time she is aware of what’s happening she’s knee deep in blood.

      Brilliant! An eerie delight for readers who like their chills served in layers.

      ~Barbara Silkstone

      The Autobiography: An Eternal Rite of Passage

      A famous author finds the typed words have mysteriously changed to reveal his own life. Things he would never disclose.

      Scorned

      Have you ever been on a vacation you didn’t want to end? Visit the ghost town of Promise, and it never will.

      Novella’s by This Author:

      An Unforgiven Sin

      Bridled Secret

      One for Show-Two for the Money

      Published in: Thirty Fabulous Stories: An Anthology

      Apartment 304

      Published in: Thirty Fabulous Stories: An Anthology

      Troubled Lives: An Anthology of Novella’s

      A collection of some of the authors best stories written over the years.

      And

      Mr. Tool’s Farm Adventure Series

      The three volume set is a bible study for pre-school age children teaching morals through the lives of baby farm animals.

      Acknowledgment:

      Obviously this is a no brainer. Thank you every single family member and friend for all your encouragement and support during this rough time. Without your cheers, the quitting process would have been so much tougher.

      A special thank you to my poor husband who had to endure all my mood swings, temper tantrums and whining. He stood his ground and guided me through the roughest days.

      Had I not succeeded, naturally there wouldn’t be a book. So the help that these words deliver to those out there struggling to quit smoking, the thanks go to all the people who took part in encouraging me through it.

      I Love you all,

      Becky Nelson-Littrell

      Introduction:

      This is a self-help guide through the process of quitting smoking. It can be used to help many other addictions as well.

      It is different from text book instruction in that it is made up of pages of my own experience from pre-quit date through the entire process. In essence it is a success story.

      Being a forty year smoker and not a big fan of discomfort, I tell it like it really is from the moment I began the process of cutting back.

      My reason for sharing is a hope that others like me, ones who think it’s nearly impossible for them to quit—will pick it up and follow my lead to a victorious new way of life.

      I am writing this book as I am in the beginning stages of quitting. I am also writing a daily journal and a blog as well. Learning through trial and error what works and what doesn’t.

      I wouldn’t recommend it—you must bear in mind that my incentive was to prove a theory and see if I could learn a way to make quitting easier on us poor addicts.

      A couple weeks through my process I went back to read my first few entries. I made comments after some of them as to what I learned. The blog entries if applicable will be added to that particular day or chapter.

      Oh and by the way—I did succeed. I know its taboo for an author to give away the ending but I couldn’t help it. It will be so hard for you to believe it as you read my whining. No one would believe I get past chapter three. But I did and I am so anxious to share my secrets with fellow smokers who want to quit, or need to quit—but like me think it’s just too hard.

      Good luck—and remember to stop by my blog and chat with me if you’re having troubles.

      Maybe I could offer some helpful hints, or at least lend an ear to your unique situation. It helps to have encouragement, even to talk to someone who knows what you’re going through. I would be interested to know how you are doing.

      Part I

      Chapter 1

      Before you begin

      First of all we need to determine what kind of smoker you are, what methods you will use and how ready you think you are. During this time feel free to keep smoking and read this book to the end before starting the quitting process. It is important that you set up you’re space, time and state of mind before you even begin, no matter how eager you may be. Be very aware before you begin that just because you are still smoking, it doesn’t exclude you from the program. From the moment you commit to it, you’re in.

      Get out a pad and pen to plan your strategy. If you are going to succeed, you need to figure out how much you smoke a day, when and where the smoking takes place and what benefits you seek from quitting. You can use the worksheet at the end of this chapter.

      Once you have determined that, we need to decide which method will be best for you. You may want to talk with your doctor about a plan and to be sure now is a good time for you to stop. If you think you would like to try the new drug, your doctor will have to prescribe it anyway. You will then want to follow the instructions given to you by the pharmacist.

      If you choose the nicotine patch, you will either be starting with step one (for those who smoke more than ten cigarettes a day) or step two (for those who smoke less than ten cigarettes a day).

      There is also nicotine gum and lozenges.

      Once you decide which method to start with you need to decide when would be a good time. Don’t chose a time when there are a lot of activities coming up. It will be much easier if you have a good week or two of quiet time, normal daily routine things, but nothing real major.

      Naturally there is always going to be something on the calendar, and you can’t stop things from coming up. I have kept a daily log of my first two weeks and will be sharing it with you later on in the book.

      As you read through you’ll see the types of events that either were planned or came up, that I was able to breeze through. Alright—alright, but I did get through. Had I known how eventful my life would be during those two weeks, I may have chosen to wait. I learned that I am stronger than I gave myself credit for—you are too.

      There’s no sugarcoating, hype, or minced words here. If you want text book instructions and proper English this is not the book for you. Here you will get straight talk from a forty year addiction smack dab in the middle of quitting and I have to warn you, it ain’t pretty!

      I’m fifty-three, set in my ways, and not a big fan of discomfort of any kind. Why do you think I smoked for so long? Besides, when I started, they weren’t so sure cigarettes would be harmful. They were illegal

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