Not for the timid

[JonesCarpeDiem]

So I was sitting out in the yard just now waiting for Hoggie to come home from his morning ramble and I reached up to scratch my neck at the line of my t- shirt. As I was there I felt a hair. It seemed quite long so I pulled it.
Well, it was pure white, well over 4 inches and, being so spectacularly long, I wondered if it was my "life-hair" and, if I had just “pulled the plug”
For you who may still be smoking
The conditions in your body can be just right so that one cigarette can trigger a stroke or heart attack.
The one you have between your lips this very second might be your smoke-hair, that hair trigger that sets off a disheartening life changing chain of events.

Is that the way you want to go?
Are you prepared to leave everything behind for that smoke?

[OldBones-Larry]

Great post dale. I used to be one og those guys. I just had to find out the hard way about the dangers of smoking.

Larry

[Thomas3.20.2010]

I pulled the COPD trigger hair! There's no going back!

[marilyn_marmac]

And I pulled the stroke hair...there's no going back for me either! So, I'm just going to pray that you pulled a wild hair and not your life hair.

[SkyGirl]

Great blog, Dale!  That's a pretty hairy story!

Sometimes a smoker has pulled the hair-trigger and doesn't even know it.  Although your body starts to heal the minute you stop smoking, the health effects can still show up years later.  A sobering thought.

[stonecipher]

I have heard of people who quit and were later diagnosed with life-threatening cancer who declared they wish they hadn't quit.  I wonder about those people.  Did they never experience the pure joy of being quit, for being quit's sake?  I mean. . .I am glad to be free and I do expect that my smoking will effect me anyway.  I surely did not escape the consequences of hurting myself all those years.

AND YET.  I would never think that I wish I had kept on smoking since I "caught something" after all.

Because it just feels so much better NOW to be smoke-free.

Do it for your future health, of course.  But do it for today and the day after that just because it is such a better way to live.

It's not just about the breathing folks, it's about the LIVING!!!!!

P.S. Dale, I wish I only had 1 pure white hair to pull.  haha!

[newlife5]

if i pulled all my white hairs i'd be bald.. so all my hairs must be ready to be tripped ...so im gonna kinda just watch my step

[lpears]

Great blog post Dale! Before I became a non smoker, I always thought, "Just one more couldn't hurt." In reality it unfortunatley can.