sensibility
Oct. 4th, 2005 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormant_dragonOne of the many pieces of advice given to people who are addicted (be it to nicotine, alcohol, or some other substance) is 'don't wait until you're "ready" - just make the decision to quit'. They say there's never a 'right' time to do it, and that waiting for the 'right' time is just putting it off.
As someone with a reasonable amount of experience in this field, I would qualify this advice by saying that it is vitally important to feel ready to quit. Others can tell you until they're blue in the face that you need to give up your addiction, but until you own the decision and step up to it, it is very difficult to achieve success.
You have to not only tell yourself that you will be better off, but you need to be absolutely convinced that the benefits of quitting will outweigh the temporary satisfaction of your next substance hit. It's the conviction that keeps you going.
"If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all."
- Hamlet
As someone with a reasonable amount of experience in this field, I would qualify this advice by saying that it is vitally important to feel ready to quit. Others can tell you until they're blue in the face that you need to give up your addiction, but until you own the decision and step up to it, it is very difficult to achieve success.
You have to not only tell yourself that you will be better off, but you need to be absolutely convinced that the benefits of quitting will outweigh the temporary satisfaction of your next substance hit. It's the conviction that keeps you going.
"If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all."
- Hamlet
