Today is day 362 of my quit!!!!! 362 days my lungs have been without poison!!!! 362 days since I lost what was my best friend.....362 days of my "new" life!!!
Wow its amazing!!!! I never believed I could really do it. But I did and I will continue to be smoke free.
Today I was sitting and thinking back to my first ever cigarette and how I coughed so hard til I thought I was going to hack a lung. And I thought then it was crazy but I didn't care I wanted to be part of the "cool" crowd. Geez If I only knew then what I know now. How crazy is that. I just wanted to be apart of what a lot of my friends were then.
I speak to a friend from back in my first years of smoking and she tells me she quit smoking years ago and is glad she did. Her husband didn't smoke and he didn't like it and she was mad in love and decided to have the man over the cigs. they were married for 8 years and he passed away from cancer and was never a smoker. So she said when he passed that just because there was stress she wasn't going aback to smoking. I am very proud of her.
I remember so many things now about when I was a smoker.I went to the hospital to have my oldest son and of course are you a smoker? yes how many a day.......of course i always lied I didn't want them to know I knew what was coming anyway after those first couple questions...same questions with the next 2. just things like that I think back and wonder why I never cared before. I am glad now that I finally quit. its over.
Noone wants to be considered a Quitter but in this case I can be the quitter and the winner all rolled into one.
more soon.....
as always I am still.......
ONE DAY AT A TIME.......
This photo is of Peaches my poodle before she went to the Doggie Beauty shop
This photo is of peaches after she went to the Doggie Beauty Shop
2 comments:
I'm still so thrilled you are so close to a year. You sound really great, too, and I hope you always keep the perspective you do about not wanting to go back to it. Life is so much better this way.
Peaches is adorable!
I also remember smoking my first cigarette and having to learn to like to smoke....yeah, that says it all! I, like you hacked and hacked but sure enough, soon I had a pack a day habit! It did not take long before I was an addict either! Forgot that social smoker stuff! Not me! I had to be "hardcore" and a pack a day smoker at 13! I feel so grateful that the madness has stopped! I think its wonderful you are three days away from a year! That is a HUGE milestone! Seeing others do it makes me know its possible! I hope you do something special to celebrate your achievement!
Peace,
Diva
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