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Smoking Is Selfish~~The Unspoken Motto?~~ "I Will ALWAYS Choose This Over You"

JonesCarpeDiem
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We talk about the money we’re saving and the fact that we don’t stink anymore
Let’s talk about how selfish smoking is

Do you have the right to leave  your family in a restaurant so you can go out and smoke?

Do you have the right to carry on a conversation with someone when all that’s on your mind is a cigarette?

Do you want to respond one day when your son says “hey dad ! did you see me hit that home run?"
with: “gee no son, I was out in the parking lot smoking. See I’m an addict. I choose this over you.
I can’t help it son.”

Is this what you want people to remember you for? Smoking? There are people in my family that are only remembered as always smoking and killing themselves with it. Will that be your legacy?

Is it your right to prevent these special memories from happening because you are off someplace getting your fix?

Is it ok to make everyone around you bend to your addiction? What kind of memories and possible resentment is that buiilding?

What are you teaching the younger people around you who are too young to smoke yet?

Take a good frigging look at the control smoking has over you .

Do you really want to let this go on?  and on?   and on?   and on?

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.