Welcome to the 5 D's Club
The Step of Surrender
Read How Nicotine Anonymous Works: Honesty, Openness, Willingness
Read Nicotine Anonymous: The Book on Step 3 also Read from the Questionairee "What Happened"
Answer these Step Three Questions and add them to your journal
Who will be your network of people that will help you? Write down at least a List of 10 Support Buddies that you will be using to help you in your recovery.
Idea's on support systems:
Family members, Friends, Co-Workers, Nicotine Anonymous group, Smoking Cession clinic/group, Sponsor, buddies, etc.
Dedication Step. Find a way to dedicate yourself through a ceremony or a letter/prayer to commitment to the program. By this time, you should be ready to stop all nicotine. You may want to get rid of all of your nicotine, ashtrays, vapers, and smokes. If you are relapsing, keep making and reviewing steps 1 and 2 to see what you are missing. I promised not to use nicotine as a solution to my problems and committed to working on the 12 Steps instead. I found other coping skills besides using nicotine.
Third Step Prayer NicA
Relieve me of the bondage of self. Help me to abandon myself to the spirit. Move me to do good in this world and show kindness. Help me to overcome and avoid anger, resentment, jealousy, and any other kind of negative thinking today. Help me to help those who suffer. Keep me alert with the courage to face life and not withdraw from it, not to insulate myself from all pain whereby I insulate myself from love as well.
Free me from fantasy and fear. Inspire and direct my thinking today; let it be divorced from self-pity, dishonesty, and self-seeking motives. Show me the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness, and love. I pray for all of those to whom I’ve been unkind and ask that they are granted the same peace that I seek. Amen
Through trust in our Higher Power, we found that we were taken care of in surprising and simple ways. This gave us new confidence and an increasing faith. Our victory over our own difficulties encouraged us to continue, and we became an example for others as well.