Recovery teaches us that our behavior and attitude are choices. We can choose faith in a Higher Power instead of settling for dependence on a drug. With faith, we find the peace we sought but never found in all those packs we opened. As nicotine addicts, we all had our list of excuses and rationalizations to use this drug. We may have believed that using was simply a choice we made.
Nicotine addiction is powerful and cunning.
It interfered with our thinking, so using it became an irrational, compelling response to any and all experiences. With recovery we learn healthier and more effective options than using nicotine. The more we work this program, the more we accept that smoking is not an option anymore. If we keep it simple, serenity can grace us. With serenity we want to inhale only clean air.