Video discusses how important it is to understand that the way you will be able to attain a successful quit is by becoming smarter than nicotine not stronger than it.

Read "I'm just too weak to quit smoking!", the 1984 article that inspired this video.

Related commentary from the Freedom from Nicotine board, before we had a zero tolerance relapse policy:

We currently have a person participating here who isn't quitting smoking. It is not that she can't, it is that she won't. I don't think she understands the difference yet. But we are not here to witness people self-destructing. We are here to help people stop self-destruction.

By allowing a person to come in day after day and never getting off cigarettes is doing nobody any good, least of all the smoker him or herself. For if we just take a wait and see attitude about it, so will the smoker. If we just accept it as an acceptable behavior, so will the smoker.

I guess if we really wanted to we could survive witnessing the inevitable failure after failure. But the fact is, the smoker may not have such a luxury. For living is what the smoker is putting on the line with every puff of nicotine he or she ingests.

Anyway, to get the point across that the person needs to stop wasting her time, we are pulling her membership. This is not an act we do often here. In fact, I don't think we pulled a membership of anyone since early March. Prior to that we have probably pulled only a handful of memberships that I am unaware of, out of over 2,000 members.

But everyone here has to realize that we mean business. More important though, everyone here has to realize that they mean business. The business is that everyone here is fighting for his or hers own life.

Hopefully, the person will realize that a quit is a 100% commitment, will give that commitment, really quit next time and reapply. But she is only going to fit in here if she quits. Until then she and anyone else who is not ready to quit is welcome to read here and learn here. They will all learn from our members that quitting is possible and that there is life after smoking. Our members all teach each other this.

We are not a site of people trying to quit, we are a site of people who have quit. Some for a few hours, some for days, weeks, months or even years. Time without smoking is not the common thread that binds us–success at quitting is.

Do we think that some people just can't quit, that stopping or staying off is just beyond their means? No, we don't mean that at all. Our true belief is that everyone can quit smoking. Everyone! But there are just some people who won't quit smoking. They minimize the importance of each quit.

"Oh well, I'll just quit again tomorrow or some day," is their battle cry. Nobody here should ever allow himself or herself to fall into this trap. You just never know which cigarette is going to be the one to start an irreversible process, of either a cell mutation or even sudden death.

A relapse with the intent of just quitting again can be a fatal miscalculation. You never know whether or not you will have the strength to quit again, the desire, and worst of all, the opportunity before something big goes wrong–something really big. Your only way to minimize your current and past risks of being a smoker is to always remember to Never Take Another Puff!

Related articles:

• Well at least I attempted to quit smoking
• I tried Freedom once, why bother trying again
• The Freedom from Nicotine support board's zero tolerance relapse policy

Related resources:

• "I can't quit or I won't quit?"
• "I can't quit because I am addicted"
• "I can't quit because…"
• "I will quit when…"
• Waiting to bottom out
• Are you stronger than your cigarettes?
• Are you smart enough for an IQ pin?
• "That's amazing that you didn't smoke"
• "I know too much about smoking to ever be able to relapse"