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Is life more important than smoking?

JonesCarpeDiem
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Or, is smoking more important than life?

How about quality of life?

Quality of life is something we can control right now

Our future quality of life depends on today's.

Our friend Betty smoked for over 50 years. You can go back and read her posts.

Maybe one of you could put a link up to her posts? (You can also type "Betty" in the search bar upper right corner of the page)

We lost her to lung cancer.  She was gone one month after being diagnosed.

But those last 5 years, she lived. She went to one of the annual Ex-Get Togethers.

She was vivacious, out of her smoking skin. We skyped from the get together.

She was finally living, free of cigarettes.

I know for a fact Betty would've not given up those five good years of freedom for anything.

You simply don't know quality of life chained to a cigarette.

Don't give yourself the excuse "well I've smoked for so long, it doesn't matter anyway."

It does matter.

Miss you Betty.

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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.