Hello to everyone! I hope you are all doing well on ur quits! keep up the good work and stay strong and smoke-free!
It's been a little over 4 months since I quit smoking, and it feels so goood to be free from that addiction! I never thought I would ever be able to say that since smoking went with everything I did. It ruled my life in more ways than I would like to believe. It doesn't even bother me to be around smokers anymore, I just think to myself how I to once was like that and now I nolonger stink, have to take a smoke break, and nolonger spending money on cigarettes. I have saved over $550 since I quit. I love that I'm proud of me, but most of all that my kids are proud of me and the tell me how much I have changed since i quit smoking. We go walking more and do more stuff than I did when I was tired all the time from smoking. I don't need to stop to smoke, I don't really miss smoking like I thought I would. I had another habit( bitting my nails) that I quit after I quit smoking. Now the only addiction I think I have left is the never ending need to change my hair color, or cut it. To everyone that is wondering how I stay so strong..... well I read alot about what smoking and nicotine does to the body and everything that I read has made a big impact in my life. I can't believe how much crap and for how long I was putting it in my body. I say if I was to get any kind of Cancer or have Heart disease or anything else that comes from smoking than thats what I get for being a dumb ass, I knew better and I pretty much did it to myself. Same goes from drinking! We all know better. I quit drinking in 2004. Alcohol was not an addiction for me but it could have been because I do come from a line of ALCOHOLICS, I did drink alot for a few years. I wanted to stop so I wouldn't have any problems from drinking. Alcohol was also a trigger at times. I think what gets me the most is that Nicotine is so poisonious, and was originally used as a insect repellant. All the chemicals in tobacco, I would never give myself willingly, but I smoked it in cigarettes. I would never smoke cocaine by itself because then I would be smoking crack,.......... but I did smoke it mixed in pot (Primo) so what the hell was I think...... Oh wait I wasn't I was being stupid. Now that my eyes are wideopen I realize that my health now depends on me staying smoke-free. SMOKING IS NOT AN OPTION !!! Good Luck to everyone and keep coming here for support. Thanks to everyone who has helped me through these times!! Lots of love to everyone !!! I'm still here just don't have alot of time on computer and for awhile computer was down!
