Triple Digit Club
I made it! I am now at at 15 weeks (105 days)! I am so grateful to be able to say that I am a non-smoker!
I have experienced some depression over the last week or so but I attribute that more to thinking about my surgery in December and how close I came to not being here anymore. That realization finally hit me last week. A delayed reaction, I guess.
But that realization, and the 10 inch scar on my abdomen are reminders of why I quit. And why I won't start again.
So glad you have made the journey successfully too BethP. I do hope some take heed and take measures to quit this terrible addiction. I hope that should they pick up a cigarette (or even think about one) that they see the pure evil and the senseless pain they inflict. We are not immortal. Cigarettes are full of poisonous toxins that we sabotage our immune systems with.
When did we decide that smoking was more important than living? When did we decide that it is ok to spend our hard earned money on poison rather than good investments for our futures and our familie's? How many times did we buy a pack of smokes, but denied ourselves something we really wanted because we couldn't justify the cost? How many of us spend more money of ciggy's than on good wholesome food for our bodies to take care of us? When do we stop funding the tobacco industry and government coffers before we won't get anything back to retire? Do you want to enjoy retirement should you be lucky enough to make it? Being confined to a bed or immobile or in pain doesn't look like the future I envisioned. We need to take a look at reality and take steps to control it the best we can and make the positive, healthy choices before it is too late.
Life is worth living and anyone can quit smoking.
Congrats BathP, A great achievement. Statistically very few people who quit stay smoke free. You are one of the few. Keep going and remember NOPE - not one puff ever. Good luck.
Good job ! your next mission is the 6% club, thats one full year of non smoking. You are on that path with such a desirable an obtainable goal ! It's your life now not the so called pleasures of the awful addictive nicotine. Keep up this renewed addiction of a healthier lifestyle
Thanks to all of you. I can't believe I spent so much time and money on that awful habit. However, I do know that I will never be a slave to nicotine again.
Well done Beth, stick with it I'm coming up to seven months now and feel so much better.
As I said in previous store, I spent 9 days in the hospital in December for abdominal surgery. I needed the surgery because I was no longer getting blood flow to my legs because of a blocked abdominal aorta. I almost didn't survive the surgery.
I feel so blessed to be able to walk without pain. There's no way I can go back to trying to live that way.
I get cravings but I just look at my scar.
And I read the letters from all of the great person in this community.