We have found that service is the key to holding on to this precious gift of smobriety.  The 12th Step states, “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other nicotine users and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”  In other words, to keep it you have to give it away.  Here are some ways you can jump in with service at the local, Intergroup and National levels:

• Chair a meeting 

• Set up for a meeting 

• Be in charge of inventory of chips and literature

• Clean up after a meeting

• Come to Intergroup

• Write an article for SevenMinutes or Lone Star Stories

• Bake a cake for a monthly birthday meeting

• Be birthday chair (coordinate monthly birthday meetings)

• Volunteer to speak – tell your story

• Submit a meditation for the daily book of meditations

To submit articles to Lone Star Stories, e-mail Kim J.