perchie.girl
RIP 1953-2021
Congrats, Dude, keep it up!
I smoked for about 15 years. I tried to quit many, many, MANY times and something would always make me start back. I had a cigarette in my mouth in the bathroom as I waited on the bar on the stick (HPT) to show up. It did and I dropped that cigarette in the toilet and haven't had one since. The funny thing was, it really was not that hard once picking them back up was not an option for 10 months. I made up my mind that if I could quit for 10 months, I could quit forever. I don't understand people that quit for a year, or longer, and then start back. You couldn't pay me to have one now, just because I know how hard it is to stop, and how nice it is not to be hooked on them. It is amazing how much power that burning stick has over your life. There are still times when I feel that urge to smoke. I'll be driving down the road and think, "If I still smoked, I'd have one right now." It is easy to ignore, it just strikes me as odd that after 20 years, I still have sudden cravings.
Dude, the first two weeks are the hardest, then it slowly gets progressively easier. The trick is to make smoking no longer an option. Make up your mind that you are NOT going to try to quit, you ARE going to quit. I really hope you make it.
Mom quit cold as well. She smoked two packs a day till I was in Highschool. She had a half a pack sitting on her coffee table... She left it there and told herself she could have one any time she wanted to.... That same pack was there a year later before she finally threw it away.
She did the same with drinking. Back when Lite beer was the only low calorie beer. She put a half six pack out in the garage on a shelf... Its still there 35 years later. She used to drink with dad when he would come home from work while she cooked dinner.
Then My dad about ten years later did essentially the same thing. He wasn't a smoker except the occasional cigar. So that was a non issue... But He would drink at least two double bourbons at lunch time. Maybe more. I dont know but he drank with the Boys after work before he came home.... Then he would disappear sometimes on a Friday Night. Drove mom nuts and she threatened to leave him.
He tells the story about being at a party and having his second burbon and realising he wasnt drunk. He set his drink down and came home and didnt have a drink after that... Mom tells a different story. but the deal is he quit... no matter the motivation. on his own.
deb
