The Nicotine Anonymous Quarterly SEVEN Minutes A Forum for Nicotine Users Who Don’t Use
Volume XIV September 2003 Number 3
In This Issue A New Freedom Rodger F. 1 Co-founder of Nicotine Anonymous A New Freedom Rodger F. This is the conference-approved version of Rodger’s stress, and even happiness. Cigarettes were an Story. It will appear in Seven Minutes in three integral part of my persona. They were part of 3 parts. This is part one. my self-image. I saw myself as a movie star, talk- From the Chair, ing with a cigarette hanging from the corner of Robin L. would look down and realize I had two lit cig- my mouth. I wanted to be a film noir character, Iarettes burning in the ashtray. The burning excitingly doomed; standing there with a ciga- 4 tip of a cigarette would fall into my lap as I drove rette in my hand and a swirl of smoke sur- Discussion Corner a car. I would have a cold and rounding me like the movie take cough syrup just so I poster for Chinatown. I I wanted to be a 4 could calm down my throat reacted to music with my NAWS Profit and Loss enough to smoke a cigarette. film noir character, cigarette. I emphasized my Jeff C., Treasurer If I knew you were a non- words with a cigarette. I cul- smoker, I would take my car excitingly doomed; minated sex with a cigarette. instead of yours. I was standing there with Smoking was simply what I 5 addicted to nicotine. did and who I was. Coping Without Cigarettes I lived to smoke. But I a cigarette in my Phones rang, cars started, Diane D. would never admit that to hand and a swirl of non-smoking lights on air- myself or to anyone else. planes went out and I would 6 However, 50 to 80 times a smoke surrounding light up. My friends never The 2004 Conference day I went through the ritual me like the movie forgot that I was a smoker. of patting pockets for my They knew, they remem- 8 pack, tapping out a cigarette, poster for bered. Highlights from the July pulling it out, and gripping Chinatown. How did I ever get to that Officers Meeting it between my lips, finding point where my addiction Catherine C., Secretary and striking a match, and, to nicotine had so con- finally, blessedly, dragging on that cigarette. I sumed my personality and me? 9 would feel the raspiness in my throat, the almost Probably, I was born a nicotine addict. My Outreach Corner immediate sense of relief, that pressure in my mother smoked through her pregnancy and I Jeff C. and Gary M. lungs. Often I would tilt my head back and am sure I was first addicted in the womb. Of exhale as if I were expelling a deep and satisfy- course, I have no memory of this. I do remem- 10 ing breath. Then, depending on how low my ber those long trips with my two older sisters in Then and Now nicotine level was, I’d either puff furiously to the back seat and myself between my mother Floyd C. inject the nicotine into my lungs and eradicate and father in the front. No one thought of sec- those sensations of physical deprivation, or if I ond hand smoke then, as my mother filled the 11 had just had one, I’d leisurely play with it or use car with her smoke and kept the windows rolled Birthday Gratitude Form it as security stick. I loved to smoke. up to keep out the cold but clean North Dakota Subscription Form I used cigarettes to take the edge off all my emotions, including nervousness, fear, love, continued on page 7 Send letters to the editor, articles, The Twelve Steps stories, poems, artwork, or other material for Seven Minutes to: of Nicotine Anonymous
Seven Minutes c/o NAWSO 1. We admitted we were powerless over nicotine—that our lives had become unmanageable. 419 Main St., PMB #370 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore Huntington Beach, CA 92648 us to sanity. Subscription requests, circulation 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of additions and deletions may be sent God, as we understood Him. to the same address, or go to 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. www.nicotine-anonymous.org to 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the subscribe online. exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of char- Material may also be sent acter. by e-mail to: 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to
Our Preamble The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become Nicotine Anonymous is a fellowship unmanageable. of men and women helping each 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. other to live our lives free of nicotine. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. We share our experience, strength 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. and hope with each other so that we 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature may be free from this powerful addic- of our wrongs. tion. The only requirement for mem- 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. bership is the desire to stop using 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make nicotine. There are no dues or fees for amends to them all. Nicotine Anonymous membership; 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so we are self-supporting through our would injure them or others. 10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly own contributions. Nicotine Anony- admitted it. mous is not allied with any sect, 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with denomination, political entity, orga- God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and nization or institution; does not the power to carry it out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry engage in any controversy, neither this message to other alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our endorses nor opposes any cause. Our affairs. primary purpose is to offer support to The Twelve Steps reprinted and adapted here with the permission of Alcoholics Anony- those who are trying to gain freedom mous World Services, Inc. Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps does not from nicotine. mean that A.A. is affiliated with this program. A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism—use of the Twelve Steps in connection with programs and activities which Reprinted for adaptation with are patterned after A.A., but which address other problems, does not imply otherwise. permission of the A.A. Grapevine
2 ■ Seven Minutes ■ September 2003 From the Chair . . . Robin L., Atlanta, Georgia
i, I am Robin, a grateful recov- must live together sometimes com- my control and that if I let my Hering nicotine addict. I have peting with each other and some- Higher Power work in my life, I will just returned from my vacation to times coexisting peacefully. Together be given other opportunities to enjoy Alaska and have been reflecting on they help to form a beautiful state life, even if I didn’t plan it that way. the beauty of the state. The state is and countryside. Tranquility, Things will happen on God’s time massive in size and packed with although lovely and peaceful, does schedule not Robin’s. places of tranquility and serenity. not provide me with the opportu- Understanding serenity helps me When thinking of these two words, nity to grow. My nicotine recovery to identify with the still suffering I am struck by the difference in their has given me the chance to under- nicotine addict that walks into meanings in regard to my recovery stand and appreciate true serenity— his/her first Nicotine Anonymous from nicotine. According to the the- harmony with life. For that I am very meeting. For me, service work begins saurus, other words for tranquility grateful. here. Being there for are calm, silent, quiet and still. The Life is full of conflict which can the first timer or for thesaurus uses these same words to be looked at in one of two ways. One those early in their describe serenity. I believe they are could get bummed out or one can recovery is what different. Tranquility is calm and still, look for the challenge. I choose to helps to bring seren- but according to the Serenity prayer, look for the challenge. What is the ity to my life. When ALASKA message that my Higher Power is I identify with the ALASKA I believe serenity means the ability to go with the flow, the ability to sending me? What can I learn about pain and struggle of accept the things I cannot change myself in the process? While in the newcomer, I am and change the things I can. Seren- Alaska, I was rained out on one of reminded that I do ity means being able to live with my shore excursions. At first, I was not want to go back what life hands me. Serenity is like extremely disappointed. I had a hard to that point in my life. Seeing their a heart monitor. I often use this anal- time accepting that I just couldn’t suffering helps me to call on my ogy to help understand life. There take the helicopter ride to the glac- Higher Power for guidance and help. was a time when I wanted everything ier and walk on the glacier. Of all my During my first few months as chair, to be on an even keel—flat, no ups pre-planned trips, this was the one I I have had many reminders of my or downs. Then I looked at a heart was looking forward to most of all. early smobriety. When newcomers monitor. If someone is alive and well But the fog was too thick and the trip come into my home group, I recall there is an up and down pattern on was cancelled. I was reminded of Step my early days; the pain of quitting the monitor. This shows life. If life is One—accepting that I was power- and the agony of the struggle to flat, with nothing happening, no joy less. I had no control over the make it one day at a time not to use or sadness, just an even keel with no weather. It was not easy, but I did nicotine. I remember my desire for ups or downs, then the pattern on make the most of the day. I went on tranquility, for peace and quiet. I the monitor is a flat line. There is no two other side trips instead and had then remember how, as time went life—I am dead. I have learned that a lovely day. I saw a beautiful rain- on, that desire changed from a wish serenity is the ability to live with life’s forest which had many waterfalls for things on an even keel to a desire ups and downs. It is learning to (my favorite landscape scenery) and for a balance in my life—serenity. accept the challenges that my Higher went to see, but not walk on, the first This serenity occurred over time. It Power sends my way. I gain strength of many glaciers on my trip. What was a slow process, but by working by being able to handle and work was HP saying to me?—When given the program— going to meetings, through the curves that are thrown lemons, make lemonade. Enjoy what participating in service work and my way and then the downs are not is around me. Take advantage of all most importantly for me, working too severe and the highs are great. I that is available. What did I learn the steps— it slowly materialized. feel that Alaska is a state abundant about myself? I still need to practice Today there is more serenity in my in serenity—abundant in challenges Step One on a regular basis. I have life than ever before. I wish this for to life where both flower and fauna to accept that there are things out of you as well.
September 2003 ■ Seven Minutes ■ 3 Discussion Corner
Gender Issues
orld Services is hoping for abuse issues and removing the Here’s how the three steps and one tradition some feedback from the “He” or “Him” from the Steps W might read if they were gender neutral: membership on the issue of gender would help women relate better in the literature. There have been to the Steps. STEP THREE many discussions at past confer- “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives ences in regard to this issue. The Some of favor of leaving over to the care of our own Higher Power,” question is regarding Steps 3, 7, and them as they are feel: STEP SEVEN 11, and Tradition 2. Should they be • The Steps have worked the way “Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our rewritten only to make them more they are written. If it’s not bro- shortcomings.” gender neutral? ken, don’t fix it. STEP ELEVEN • This is a spiritual program. God, Sought through prayer and meditation to Some in favor of changing He, Him works. Don’t change improve our conscious contact with our Higher feel: the Steps or Tradition 2. Keep Power, praying only for knowledge of its will for the variety. • God or Higher Power is not us and the power to carry that out. masculine or feminine, it needs What do you think? Send your TRADITION 2: to be neutral because some views to SevenMinutesEditor@nico- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate people believe in a spirit that tine-anonymous.org or care of authority—a loving higher power as is expressed has no gender. World Services. in our group conscience. Our leaders are but • Some women have a difficult trusted servants; they do not govern. time relating to men because of
NAWS Profit and Loss January–June, 2003 Jeff C., Huntington Beach, California
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4 ■ Seven Minutes ■ September 2003 Coping Without Cigarettes Diane D., Carmel, NY
run the Putnam County Nicotine really well and didn't show any easier to bear with time. Smoking IAnonymous meeting at the Put- signs of being ill. would have only made mat- nam County Hospital every Satur- The next day I prepared to take ters worse because I day in Carmel N.Y. On her to my vet's office—I put her know I would never July 8, 2003 my little body on a soft pillow inside have smoked only for beautiful cat Juliet a box. I put flowers inside the one week. passed away. box and a cross around her neck I would Please pray for and a picture of a saint. I wrapped have prob- her to arrive her in her favorite soft pink fleece ably in heaven. I blanket and gently took her to my smoked 1 rescued her car. This was the first time in 4 ⁄2 years for many eighteen that I thought, “Gee, I wish I could more years ago have a cigarette to years from a Brooklyn get rid of this pain.” before I street when she was four weeks old. But thankfully, in my was able It was love at first sight. She has heart I knew that a cigarette would to quit been with me through many trials not take away such a terrible grief— again. in life and has been such a comfort that it would only create another I am so grate- to me during times of stress and unsolvable problem by making me ful to be a member of Nicotine strain. I miss her presence terribly. become addicted all over again. I Anonymous—I went to the meet- I found her when I came home knew that a cigarette would be a per- ing on Saturday and from work. I believe that she died manent solution to a cried my heart out— in her sleep. I had prayed to my very painful tempo- everyone higher power for three years the fol- rary period of grief. I cared and lis- lowing prayer: “Please protect Juliet brushed the thought tened to me in my absence and if it comes from my mind as I with patience and time for her to placed my beautiful understanding. go to heaven Juliet in my car for the Being a member of please take her last time and drove to Nicotine Anony- softly and the vet. mous is a special gift I quietly and Two weeks has passed will always treasure without pain since her death and I am because not only does and suffer- still in a tremendous it help me stay ing.” She had amount of pain, how- away from smok- been taking heart ever, I can bear this ing, it also helps me to cope with medication for the past three years terrible grief because I know even- life and its sometimes painful con- morning and night but was doing tually it will ease and will become sequences.
thanks to John N. of How to Avoid Playing God Fullerton, California 1. Offer no advice unless it is asked. 5. Admit that you don’t know all the the next. 2. Listen to other people’s dreams and answers. 8. Dwell on what’s right instead of help them in the way they wish to 6. Build confidence in the other per- what’s wrong. be helped. son until his own judgment 9. Realize the core of Divine Being in 3. Encourage others to find their own becomes clear. each person. Respect it. strength. 7. Have faith in the overall rightness 10. Never discount the other person’s 4. Reserve judgement—at all times. of God’s purpose in this world and good intentions.
September 2003 ■ Seven Minutes ■ 5 Celebrate Your Freedom from Nicotine in the City Where Freedom Was Born!
iladelphia reedom in ’0 our F World Services Conference XIX April 23–24–25, 2004 Radisson Plaza Warwick Hotel 1701 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 Single, Double Rooms: $145 plus tax Call toll-free for reservations: 800/333-3333 Local number: 215/735-6000 • Deadline to make reservations and get the preferred rate: March 22, 2004 • Join the meetings, speakers, sharing, and fellowship. • Delegates will vote on new officers, the 2006 conference site and other conference issues. • Philly Block Party on Saturday Evening, Sunday Gratitude Brunch. •“Ride the Ducks” post-conference activity on Sunday. See the city and cruise the river! All that Historic Philadelphia has to offer. • Registration forms forthcoming. • See the web site for updates! www.nicotine-anonymous.org
6 ■ Seven Minutes ■ September 2003 A New Freedom though I was nervous, I got the said, “You’ve got low blood pres- continued from page 1 job. Caffeine worked for me. sure.” air. My father quit smoking in his A year later after a really busy The doctor arrived, puzzled, and early thirties and except for one day of appointments and meetings began asking questions. Finally, he smoking lapse during my child- I went to my doctor around five in asked, “The previous time you were hood; I do not remember him as a the afternoon. He took my blood in, did you drink any caffeine that smoker. day?” My mother, however, was a I thought, “Yes, probably about smoker. I remember the cigarette I do remember five double espressos, three cups of smell on her clothes and hair and those long trips coffee, and maybe a coke, why?” all over our home. She was young “And today?” then and no one questioned her with my two older “Nothing this morning.” smoking. I think I grew up thinking sisters in the back “I think we’ve found the prob- smoking was a natural thing to do. lem.” When I was 15, we lived next to seat and myself I am an addict and I smoked a family with four boys who were addictively. I smoked through high my friends. One named Ralph was between my mother school as much as I could. On my the black sheep of the family and it and father in the own while in college, I gave free was he who, over the backyard rein to my smoking. I started smok- fence, introduced me to cigarettes. front. No one ing over one pack a day and then It was no big deal. Ralph made it thought of second over two. It was the late 1960s and seem rebelliously cool. I think at first I took amphetamines, studied, and I was a little nauseous, but that soon hand smoke then, smoked. I drank and smoked. With passed, replaced by that sensation as my mother filled everything I smoked. I smoked and of the drag, the long, wonderful saved the coupons that were drag on a cigarette. the car with her inserted in the packs. I joked that I In the small Oregon town where smoke and kept the was going to use them to buy an I then lived, there was a cigarette iron lung. Later, I changed brands. machine outside a gas station that windows rolled up When in Europe, I smoked Euro- closed at around nine every evening. to keep out the cold pean brands—at first the ones with After the attendants left, I would filters and then unfiltered. Back in arrive with my quarter—the cost in but clean North the United States, I found an equiv- the late 1960s—and buy my pack. Dakota air. alent non-filtered brand. As a non- I smoked through high school. I filter smoker, I developed the yellow demonstrated an addictive person- stains on my smoking fingers and ality in other areas as well, using pressure and frowned. “You’ve got picked tobacco out of my teeth. I everything from alcohol, to drugs, high blood pressure. I may have to remember I sniffed my finger at any to girls. I was and am one of those put you on medication.” time and smelled that strong people who, when something has a I replied, “That’s impossible. I’ve tobacco odor. pleasurable effect on me, must use always had low blood pressure! I’m This story will continue in the next issue of it to the point of abuse and addic- a runner! I’ve never had blood Seven Minutes. tion. Until seven years ago, I had pressure problems.” not drunk caffeine for 18 years. The doctor was not impressed Then one morning, I arrived for a and told me to return in 30 days to job interview. I was tired, having just recheck it. I went home expecting returned from the East Coast. The to die shortly. I returned 30 days receptionist told me it would be a later in the early morning few minutes, and asked if I would anxious to hear the bad like a cup of coffee. It seemed like a news. The nurse came in, good idea at the time, which is also took my blood pressure, and one of the recurrent themes of my asked me the reason for my visit. life. I had the cup of coffee, I did the “High blood pressure of course!” interview very well and, even She looked at me curiously and
September 2003 ■ Seven Minutes ■ 7 Highlights from the July Officers’ Meeting Catherine C., Secretary
he July meeting of your World • The 2003 Conference: the con- someone tells us. Trying to keep TServices officers was held in ference was a success in all a record of the last time meet- Southern California, where three respects except financially. Sev- ings were updated, and will members of the board live, and was eral t-shirts remain. 158 people begin to drop meetings that have hosted by the Southern California registered for the event. not contacted us in over two Nicotine Anonymous Intergroup. • The 2004 Conference: the draft years. We need to make a greater Here are some of the highlights of of the registration flyer is almost effort to contact international that meeting. For more information, complete, and a logo has been meetings. or to volunteer your services, designed.More information and • Traditions Committee: continues please contact World flyers will be available after Sep- to review all traditions questions Services. tember 28. that come their way, including • With the help of • 2005 Conference: A site for the reading every issue of Seven Min- Jan S. in Philadel- conference has been selected: The utes before it is published. phia, World Services Sheraton Buckhead Hotel in • Fulfillment: sales appear to be is recording a 30- Atlanta with a great rate of $85 a going down. The web site has second public ser- night. Meeting facilities have helped with individual orders. vice radio announce- been reserved. A logo is being Shipping income doesn’t cover ment. designed with the theme “Peachy the cost of shipping. • The Book: work is still Clean.” • World Services web site needs to being done on the book. A • The Book of Daily Meditations: The be registered with search engines, traditions section will be added 90 Days, 90 Ways book is being but it can be quite expensive. Dis- as soon as it has been written. prepared to be printed. Medita- cussion of Intergroups using lit- Some of the Questions section is tions continue to arrive. We are erature from the WS web site. it is being edited. still looking forward to having considered a copyright violation. • Email: there are 37 penpals in the 366 meditations for a whole year. • We have continued literature sub- program. Most are in the U.S., but • World Wide Meeting List: trying missions and other issues that can- some are from Ireland, England, to keep up to date on new meet- not be addressed until we fill the Canada, Australia and Spain. ings and dropped meetings. We position of Literature Coordinator. • The Email Coordinator: for the often don’t hear from meetings • The next officers meeting will be months of April through June that close, so there is no way to October 24–26 in southern 2003, 312 messages were handled. find out about them unless California.
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8 ■ Seven Minutes ■ September 2003 Outreach Corner Mass Mailing Program, Gary M., San Clemente, California
ass mailing is another way of effective because it is more likely businesses like hospitals, and Mreaching the nicotine addict that the recipient will open the let- churches. When mailed to personal who wants to quit using nicotine. ter rather than tossing it. Nobody residences anonymity is being It’s a back door approach to not only knows what NAWSO stands for, broken. get help for the person who wants that’s why we need our name out Try your own ideas. Just try mail- to give up nicotine, but it is also an there. And, anonymity is not being ing somewhere and let God do the informative way of educating the broken if your letter is mailed to rest. medical profession and church affil- iations about our program and what it can do for the addict who wants Some Helpful Contacts: to quit and can’t, doesn’t know how, • American Heart Assoc: www.americanheart.org and who needs support. • American Lung Assoc: www.lungusa.org What I’ve done is pick an area like • American Cancer Society: www.cancer.org hospitals and mail an introduction • VA Hospitals and clinics: www.va.org letter, a business card, “Introducing • Smoking cessation programs Nicotine Anonymous” and/or a flyer • Hospital web USA: http://hdsa.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalwe- listing my local meetings. busa.html (This link lists every hospital in the USA) As a suggestion, this could be done with doctors, dentists and/or • All local medical and dental offices any other medical institutions you • All churches and other religious organizations can think of. Perhaps you can send • Use www.superpages.com for searching out sources the same information to churches • Find zip codes at www.usps.com in your area. It may be possible to come up with up to 500 mailings in your area. The 19th Annual Nicotine If you use the Nicotine Anony- mous World Services return address Anonymous Conference will on your envelopes, I have found that if you put, “Nicotine Anony- be in Philadelphia in 2004. mous WSO 419 Main St, PMB #370 Huntington Beach, Ca 92648” (ver- See page 6 for details. sus using NAWSO), it might be more
Step Study Guide for NicA: Help! ork has begun on a Step Study Guide for use material from another program, how have you WNicotine Anonymous. Volunteers at the last altered it, if you have? conference have begun coordinating efforts to make What would you like to see in a Step Study Guide this guide a reality. But they need your help. How for Nicotine Anonymous? Send your ideas and mate- have you been working the steps with your spon- rial to the Literature Coordinator at the World Ser- sees/sponsors? Do you have any written material vices address, or e-mail to LiteratureCoordinator@ that you have created that you currently use? If you nicotine-anonymous.org.
September 2003 ■ Seven Minutes ■ 9 Then and Now Floyd C., Walker, Minnesota
What it used to be big part of my life. After approxi- mately two years of making an effort like to stop using cigarettes on my own, My use of nicotine was in cigarettes, finally I became willing to allow my cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, plug Higher Power to intervene. tobacco and other chewing tobacco. During telephone calls, picture tak- What it is like now ing, drinking alcoholic beverages, Living the Twelve Steps to the best before, after and sometimes during of my ability (sometimes my ability eating I had to light up and smoke isn’t too good), I have not only been cigarettes! fortunate to stop smoking cigarettes What happened that I wanted to and/or other drugs, but my attitude stop using nicotine products? Some- is much more positive, less self-cen- one reminded me that I didn’t like tered, less denial, more honest with anyone telling me what to do and myself and others, and I am able to yet I allowed cigarettes to control a deal with my anger toward myself and others in a more positive way.
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10 ■ Seven Minutes ■ September 2003 Congratulations and thanks to: Birthday Steve S., whose anniversary date is 4/16/02 1 year nicotine free! and
Kim R., who stopped using nicotine on 7/29/01 Congratulations 2 years nicotine free!!!
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