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Why do we CARE?

Thomas3.20.2010
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You see so many of us here every single day doing everything we can think of to inspire, show, teach, lead,cajol, WHATEVER IT TAKES to see YOU become Smoke FREE NOW! Have you asked yourself why we are so driven and insistent that you gotta get on it TODAY? Well, FOR ME it's because I am struggling to take each and every breath even though I have quit! Yet, I'm so so glad I quit! So I have seen the absolute worst and best of each side of quitting! I smoked until I acquired a smoke-related illness that will most likely kill me! AND I found out that when I DID finally quit, FIRST, it wasn't near as scary - difficult- stressful as we had imagined or as we had been led to believe by those dumb Nicorette commercials and SECOND a whole new person emerged once the smoke cloud lifted - the REAL ADDICTION FREE ME! It' s exhilerating to find out that life can be this GREAT! If I had only known how FREE I would feel, I would have quit years ago! Or even better, if I had known how much FREEDOM I would have to give up to ADDICTION I would have never chosen to smoke in the first place! THAT is what we want you to know! The carrot and the stick! You smoke and you sacrifice your true self - your honesty, your confidence, your self-esteem, your happiness, your YOU! Quit and you get all of that back PLUS your Health! Tobacco is the poison that just keeps on taking.......and taking,and taking and taking! And yet, no matter what we say to you, no matter how many stories we bring to you, no matter how many pictures or videos we tell you to watch, as long as you use your ADDICTION Infected part of your brain you will either minimize, delay, shut out, ignore ANYTHING you are told because it means YOU WILL HAVE TO STOP BEING AN ADDICT! Only YOU can get so fed up with the time, the money, the integrity, the happiness, the health, the family life that this DRUG is sucking out of you! Now whose the sucker? You or the Sickerette? Only YOU can make the DECISION to break out and LIVE FREE! My wish for you is that you dig deep and find within you the TRUTH you already KNOW - that you have KNOWN for a very long time! TODAY is the Day that YOU need to STOP Smoking and START Living FREE!
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63 years old. 20 year smoker. 11 Years FREE! Diagnosed with COPD. Choosing a Quality LIFE! It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. -Galatians 5:1