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Scared my son

elims-09-14-13
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Don't know if I mentioned it, but my son is again out of my home. It's what needed to be done for the time being. So, he hasn't seen me on a regular basis in a couple of weeks. 

Monday I locked myself out of my house. My son still had his house key, and I had to go to his school anyway. So, my neighbor drove me. And smoked in the car, with the window open...

As soon as I walked into the school my son smelled it. "What's wrong? Why do you smell like smoke?" and I reminded him that I locked myself out, and explained which neighbor gave me the ride...and he was SO relieved. He remembeed that I had just gotten to the 3 year mark.

She was shocked to hear that I smelled like her smoke. I told her that my kids smell like smoke when they are playing out front and she goes out to smoke. She had no idea. I told her that I really had no idea when I was a amoker either - but it is BAD. 

I think about how much I smoked around my kids. EEEWWWWW. I remember how entitled I felt in the "smoking section" and the disdain I felt for complainers in the non-smoking section - I really wa sclueless that they were so surrounded by our smoke! EEEEWWWW!

Just don't smoke! It stinks!

~Lisa

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I quit with the help of Chantix on September 14, 2013. I did the pledge. I wrote. I answered other people. I had to teach myself that smoking didn't actually make anything easier or better. I learned other coping techniques. I made friends here. I just didn't smoke each day.