Day one on the road to becoming smoke free.

[pinkchick]

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[seminolewind]

I remember April 3 years ago. My Polish roo, Eddie, got a brain injury somehow, we found him cowering in the corner of the yard.

Eddie's brother, Ivan ruled the flock. Ivan was alpha. Everything was fine as long as Eddie was low man on the totem pole. There was always something "off" about Eddie. His V comb and poof was crooked, his body was slightly crooked. We would watch him letting Ivan be alpha and not challange him. When Ivan turned his back, he would make a challenge stance until Ivan turned around. One time Eddie jumped on a nice big Jersey girl, and she tossed him off about 3 feet away. But if somebody picked on Eddie, the Jersey girls would come running to save him.

Then his brain injury. His neck was twisted backwards, and he continuosly walked circles backwards. I had to feed him with a spoon and put him in front of the waterer several times a day. He was in a pen by himself, then later, had 3 chicks with him.He was a great babysitter, we always put the chicks with him even before the injury. A month later, I realised that I may have to euthanize him. So I made him swallow about 10 valium (it was the dog's). I sat in the pen from 7pm. 10pm-nothing. 12pm nothing. One am nothing. Iwent to bed.

During those hours, I sat in the pen with him, I had just quit smoking, and had the electronic cigarettes. I wanted a cigarette so bad (or 20). I made it thru having 2 e-cigs going. Puffing one hot, then the other. Non stop, alternating. I made it thru. I think that night I decided that I could quit smokinng permanently. To me that was the test.

Well, Eddie crowed the next morning, valium doesn't work on chickens. He started to get better. He was almost 100% after another month. Then, he just slowly wasted away. And we sent him to heaven. He was our first chicken death. Yes, I cried for hours. My husband cried. And Eddie , I think, made me strong, I use my ecigs, and I haven't smoked in 3 years this april.

Thanks for listening. Smoking is very hard to quit, even harder to stay quit. You have to want it. I praise anyone for taking those steps. But it still makes me angry that smokers are treated badly and rudely, and are the Government's cash cow.

 

[seminolewind]

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[lorain's fids]

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[Newwell]

Congrats Braclin!!! I know how tough it is to quit. My hubby & I are on day 7 now. We chose to use e-cigs. They are working great for us.
I am standing behind you 100%. You can do this.

 

[Braclin]

5 days smoke free.

 

[speckledhen]

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[Inkheart]

Way to go Brandon! So are you missing it? think about it?

 

[seminolewind]

Yeah!!!!!! Keep up the good work!
I think one of the best things for me was not having to plan my life around cigarettes-like making sure I smoked before I went some.where, etc

 

[kathyinmo]

Keep it up, Brandon! You are now a non-smoker!