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So....I'm Projecting Into The Near Future

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-25-2012 12:01 AM

The circle of addiction....

My very good friend from the first quit smoking site i was on quit a few months after i did.

About 5-6 months ago, she moved in with an old (smoking) friend.  Evidently the wine just didn't taste as good without a cigarette...(yes she trashed a nearly 5 year quit)

a few months after my friend moved in, .... her old smoking friend had one of her legs amputated because sores on her feet would not heal. the doctors attributed it to bad circulation. (most probably due to her chain smoking for 40 years) Smoking depletes healing oxygen from your bloodstream and replaces it with carbon monoxide. (poison)

so...i'm talking to my friend tonight and telling her if she isn't able to quit before her friend moves home, she will be the enabler this time and the next thing to go will be her friends other leg.

then what?

PS her friend has 90 days smokefree but asked my friend 2 days ago if she was still smoking then. said "gimmee some" 

WHY DO WE MAKE THE WRONG CHOICES WHEN WE KNOW THEY'RE WRONG?

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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.