Hello everyone.  My name is ______.  I am addicted to nicotine, and I will be chairing the meeting today/tonight

WELCOME! - It doesn't matter in what form you have used nicotine or how many times you may have tried to quit. If you have a desire to live nicotine-free you are welcome here. We suggest attending a number of meetings to discover for yourself how the caring support of others and the daily practice of Nicotine Anonymous principles has helped us experience the gift of freedom from nicotine.

May we have a moment of silence, followed by the serenity prayer, please?

THE SERENITY PRAYER

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference

PREAMBLE – Chair can read or ask someone else to read

Nicotine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women helping each other to live our lives free of nicotine.  We share our experience, strength and hope with each other so that we may be free from this powerful addiction.  The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using nicotine.

There are no dues or fees for Nicotine Anonymous membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions.  Nicotine Anonymous is not allied with any sect, denomination, political entity, organization or institution; does not engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any cause. Our primary purpose is to offer support to those who are trying to gain freedom from nicotine.

Our 7th Tradition states: Every Nicotine Anonymous group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

 In support of the 7th Tradition to make a contribution to the VONR Virtual Basket, go to https://www.voicesofnicotinerecovery.com and scroll down to the “Donate” button at the bottom of that page. Contributions support the VONR Chip Program, donations to NicA World Services and other expenses approved by Group Conscience.

 VONR has a program for mailing chips to members to celebrate recovery milestones. To request a chip, go to  http://www.voicesofnicotinerecovery.com/chip-program. 

RULES OF QUIET AND COURTESY

We observe the rules of quiet and courtesy so as not to interrupt whoever is sharing.  Please raise your hand when wanting to share, and I will call on you in turn.  When you are finished, please say Go Ahead or type GA.   Please do not distract the person sharing by typing large amounts of text on the screen.  We ask that you use black or dark fonts only. Bright, neon colored fonts causes some members significant problems. Please limit your share to 5 - 7 minutes so that all who wish to share have a chance to do so. Thank you for your consideration.

GREETER

Ask if there is anyone willing to volunteer to greet people as they come in and to post the greeter paragraph for newcomers.

GREETER PARAGRAPH

Welcome to the Voices of Nicotine Recovery meeting. If you have a desire to live nicotine free, you are welcome! Please raise your hand / "waiting - join queue to talk" and wait to be called on if you wish to share. Please limit typing when someone is sharing.

Will someone please read the 12 Steps of Nicotine Anonymous?

THE TWELVE STEPS OF NICOTINE ANONYMOUS

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1. We admitted we were powerless over nicotine - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power Greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to nicotine users and to practice these principles in all our affairs

Will someone please read the 12 Traditions of Nicotine Anonymous?

THE TWELVE TRADITIONS OF NICOTINE ANONYMOUS

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1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon Nicotine Anonymous unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving god as he may express himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for Nicotine Anonymous membership is a desire to stop using nicotine.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or Nicotine Anonymous as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the nicotine addict who still suffers.
6. A Nicotine Anonymous group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the nicotine anonymous name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every Nicotine Anonymous group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Nicotine Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. Nicotine Anonymous, as such, ought never to be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Nicotine Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the Nicotine Anonymous name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place PRINCIPLES BEFORE PERSONALITIES.

ANNOUNCEMENTS - Do we have any announcements for the good of Nicotine Anonymous or Voices of Nicotine Recovery?Service work is part of our recovery. If you would like to co-chair or Chair meetings just contact an admin. Our group has agreed that only Nicotine Anonymous conference approved literature will be read during meetings.

No one should record any part of any meeting.

 Optional Announcements -

Speaker Shares

Email speakermeeting@voicesofnicotinerecovery.com if you would like to speak. You need 90 days nicotine free and have the option to be recorded or not.

http://nicotine-anonymous.org/whats-new-events.html

World Service Conference and other events during the year

http://nicotine-anonymous.org/sevenminutes-newsletter.html

If you'd like to submit an article for 7 minutes contact Chris at Ched12345@gmail.com

Daily meditations submissions: Writings about the Steps, Traditions, slogans, recovery, spirituality, etc. 100-200 words. Send to: dailymeditations@nicotine-anonymous.org Please write "Daily Meditations" in subject line

Daily Meditations Worksheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cL9DWipSKfQtOJuGyBxVmB7TZan3fg6KXJIhpyIcuSY/edit?usp=sharing

WELCOME NEWCOMERS

Do we have any newcomers, attending your 1st, 2nd or 3rd meeting, or anyone who has never been to a Nicotine Anonymous Online meeting and who'd like to introduce yourself by your first name?

Celebrating Time

Is there anyone celebrating time without nicotine or an upcoming quit date?

END OF MEETING

Nicotine Anonymous is an anonymous fellowship. Everything that is said here, in the group meeting and member-to-member, must be held in confidence. This is the only way we can feel free to share what is in our minds and hearts, for this is how we help one another.Whom you see here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let it STAY here!

OUR PROMISES

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On our path to freedom, joy, and serenity, we are guided by the twelve steps of Nicotine Anonymous, which allow us to successfully steer the treacherous curves of craving, emotionality, turmoil and unmanageability. Our spiritual life is not a theory; we have to live it.

Physical improvement has been almost immediate. Our sense of smell and taste returns; the world takes on a new dimension of color and clarity. Our self-esteem is fueled by the genuine realization that a power greater than ourselves has pulled us from the muck of denial where we have been ever so slowly killing ourselves.

We no longer have to answer the "craving call" every twenty minutes! We choose to ask for the help this program offers so that we can reduce our risk of becoming one of the millions of premature nicotine related deaths each year. What relief!

We are learning to assert ourselves where previously we have been aggressive or passive; we are also beginning to love ourselves. As the numbness lifts, we begin to feel again, sometimes, to the temporary peril of those around us!

Gradually, our interest is focusing on Nicotine Anonymous rather than nicotine. We begin to forget we had been nicotine users, except at meetings. We now realize we have been participating in a grand hoax. We haven't given up anything at all!

Health is a new experience. We are humbly grateful for this gift. Our Higher Power, through this program, has done for us what we could not do for ourselves.

THIRD STEP PRAYER

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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 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.

KEEP COMING BACK. IT WORKS IF YOU WORK IT