Life is short . Quitting smoking can take a lot of time away from enjoying the best days of your life as a non smoker . We try too hard , we slip too often , we give up when the going gets rough .
I spoke with an old highschool friend last night . In just the recent year , five of our classmates who were a grade below me past away so younger than sixty five . Three of cancer . One of dementia , another a brain bleed . How do you grieve such young lives lost .
I remembered a time in my quit where I was so teary , bawling actually . I cried rivers those first days, and weeks . Loss of my 25 friends in a pack of cigarettes !
I was angry that I became friends with them and they were going to be gone .
Then I got lonely and depressed without them ,
Then something weird I couldn't understand around a hundred days quit , so one day I decided to look up grieving .
All of the things in the graph below I went through . What I was going through was the bargaining stage .
When my parents past I grieved very differently . While I missed them terribly I knew they were ok . Acceptance . There was a peace in that .
We all grieve differently and may not go through every stage of grieving but I did go through every stage of grieving with smoking .
I encourage you to look up grieving on the net and find the explanation of each stage . I found the explanations of each process very helpful to my quit . It may help your anxieties as well .
Dont waste this beautiful day stressing about your quit , accept it then go enjoy life in whatever way you can . Leave those thoughts of smoking behind . You will be ok without them . There are .....
Go enjoy your day , just remember not one puff .
There is a way through .
