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Share your quitting journey

Let's remember to protect our precious quits while enjoying our freedom from the dreaded nicotine poison because smoke free is the only way to be!

MarilynH
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I know that quitting smoking is doable but before I had my health scare back in the middle of June /14, I never thought that I could quit, I don't really think I really wanted to or I would've succeeded in one of the many attempts that I half heartedly tried and since then I've learned trying won't work but doing does .Once I learned I have copd, that scared me into reality because I realized that I'm not invincible, that if I didn't quit smoking, I most likely would end up on oxygen or worse Cancer either way would be a horrible death and I wasn't going to put my family through that so I got on my tablet looking for sites that could help me and I found this site, picked a quit date, read some blogs and never got back on until the date a couple of wks later but I wasn't ready so I reset it for the 14th of July /14, and again I never got back on until 18 days into my quit, I was ready to relapse or rip my hair or possibly rip someone's face off, then I remembered this site and thank goodness I did. I was reading and decided to comment on a blog and I believe it was Moody that suggested I write a blog and tell them a little bit about myself so I did and here I am 698 splendiferous smoke free days later and still counting, so I know after 40 yrs of smoking that quitting smoking is absolutely doable and absolutely worth all of the withdrawals, mood swings and the roller coaster ups and downs because every bit of it only lasts for a few wks and the freedom we get will last for the rest of our lives, breathing is essential to living so hang on tight to your quit because Victory is right around the corner. 

Marilyn 

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I'm a proud Gram of 2 grandsons and a granddaughter and I consider myself a jack of all trades and a master of none, plus I enjoy reading and being outside and since quitting smoking breathing is so much easier because I'm not coughing half of my time sucking on a cancer stick....