Thanks everyone for the the congrats on my 800 DOF yesterday, now I am on 801, still counting and smiling. I read some of my early blogs last week and I said that I smoked for 38 yrs not 40 but it wasn't until I was here for awhile that I realized that I didn't need to be a full fledged smoker on a daily basis because I actually started smoking at least two yrs earlier. I was 12 when my older sister and I would sneak our mom's tobacco and rolling papers and learned how to roll a smoke and by the time I was 13, we smoked off and on 2 or 3 days a week and by 14 even more by 16 I was married and smoking 25 and 30 a day and some days probably more like 40 but now after over 26 months of Freedom, I can tell anybody thinking of quitting smoking that it's time to get off the fence and bite the bullet and take back your life while you can before it's too late. Quitting smoking is definitely difficult but absolutely doable and vital to your health, smoking literally takes our breath away and can and will slowly kill us and by quitting smoking Lord willing in time you can start reaping the benefits of an Ex smoker and I can tell you how much better life is without the crutch and if you have quit and are struggling hang tough, hang on tight because the roller coaster ride will subside but you must get through the ups and downs of withdrawals and mood swings first, don't forget how many decades that you smoked so it stands to reason that it's going to take some time to relearn different ways of handling situations without the crutch, so give it time, stick with your quit and this evening you can smile and say YAY ANOTHER DAY WON which is a heck of a lot better than saying another day ONE!
Marilyn 801 DOF
