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How's your staycation going ?

Maki
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7 20 155

Staycation ? Lol mine didn't last long lol . I wanted a stayawayvacation from social media but I've learned just how important it is not only to ones quit but to ones seniors health when used appropriately . Years ago telephones were our way of keeping in touch and even before that a horse , or just plain old walking on foot would get people in touch .

Wives would make home made bread and take to a quarantined neighbour a mile away or two and walk right on back home and start baking again . 

I don't remember those days but I've heard many a long story from my mom and dad.

My aunt died from polio . Their family was quarantined . They didn't have social media or phone . I've heard about war but I wasn't there . 

I have heard about the Great Depression . I've heard how people had to stretch a dollar to feed their families .

Material things were not as important as giving what you could to help others or life itself .  

I see people here in my city helping each other like I've never seen before . My gosh it is amazing how people are helping each other through this . Thats love ! 

There were those nurses and doctors who cared for tuberculosis patients in the sanitarium .  Men in a different area in the hospital and women in another. The nurses weren't allowed to come home for fear of transmission . A mom and dad were so worried for their daughter and her siblings scared for their sister . But those days have passed . They got through . 

Firemen risk their lives every single day on the job . Those firemen have families . So many lives taken or families displaced because of fire . Please don't smoke , don't butt your cigarettes in planters . Smoking can steal dads from wives and their children ! 

I think back of all those years not so long ago and of those who went through the Spanish flu , polio , T B  , H1 N1 , Ebola and others , many of which we were fortunate not to have and only read about .  I think of the fires, the floods , the earthquakes , the famine and the drought and things in these past few years that have taken life after life, loved one after loved one . How did they get through ? With one another , love and support . 

None of that was in any ones control . How we treat each other is just like choosing not to smoke is something we can control . 

We can keep on smoking taking the risk that we or our loved ones won't get cancer and we can choose not to wear a mask as well , but when we do we take a risk that ourselves or someone else won't suffer the consequences .

Our choices matter . I hope all of us continue to keep quit and abide by the rules set out to help stop the virus and save lives . 

This outbreak has touched everyone in the world in some way healthy or not . It's has had no boundaries .

It's not chosen one group of people over another (although the young children seem the most immune to this.) and I am grateful for that because they are our future . They are our grandkids  

This pandemic has affected and tested governments  , doctors , nurses , essential workers , and families around the world . 

We will get through , but what will we have learned I think is the question .

Love thy neighbour ?  

      Care about you and only you ?

                 Live in peace ?

                          Be a friend ?

                                  Be grateful for your quit ?  

                                             Treat your lungs more respectfully ?    

                                                         Love life ? Live life ?

                                                                 Be kind? . Worry less ?

                                                                          Don't take things for granted? 

                                                                                    Appreciate the little things ? 

                                                                                                 All of the above ? 

Sorry for the winded long post lol . It got away on me lol .

Its been two days lol and three cups of coffee this morning lol

Have a great smoke free day everyone .

Maki .

Smoke free and mask on , while out . 

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About the Author
Smoker of 28 years . COPD recipient . My biggest help to quit was reading other successful quitters testimony as well as other quitters who would not give up and kept coming back determined to win . Also , some really hard work and helping others . I’ll have a thirteen years quit June 30 , 2024 . Biggest lesson learned : I learned that the “Just one” lesson is the key to everyone’s quit . Having “ none” not one puff , is the easy way to quit smoking . Post for help if it gets hard and before you have to own up to giving your quit away because if you do your quit can be saved . After the fact starts day one all over .I can’t tell you enough how worth it that is . Quit tools : Made use of my strengths and improved upon my weaknesses . Quit benefits , more time with my family , better quality of life , better self image . How I kept the quit : one day at a time , one step at a time . I told myself like a broken record : “ Don’t smoke ; Do something different “ then literally went and did something different other than smoking “ . Quitting is not complicated .It is really simply one word ( not one puff ever ) or nope , however , it will be the process of self discovery in this journey as you figure out things for yourself that can complicate things . How long will that be ? Well we are all different and we come from different backgrounds and smoked for different reasons so no one can really tell you when it will get easier for you only that it will . Be patient with yourself . Who cares how long it takes anyway because we all came to quit forever . This quit is for life , your life , so embrace it , welcome it , it’s the best thing you will ever do for yourself . The money you save get a bucket list of little rewards and big ones and do them . Change the things you can . Life is worth living . This gets easier , oh my gosh , so much much easier . Give it a season , give it two and you’ll never want to let go of your quit I promise you that . It’s wonderful , absolutely wonderful to be free . Quitting btw was the hardest thing I’ve ever done just like everyone here . I shed buckets of tears for weeks , yelled into a pillow , stuck my head into a cold bucket of water and paced aimlessly in head fog . Was it worth it , every bit of it ! Biggest improvement : , my health , the relationship with my family ( all non smokers thank goodness ) and finances . When I started 2011. I was walking three blocks with the use of inhalers for copd . Latest accomplishment : still on the inhalers no further advancement of copd . June 1 2023. Did my first 10 k . Next goal is my second 10k by the end of 2024 . I’m 68 years years young and I’m an Ex smoker . I was able to take three trips ( out of country ) with my family because I quit smoking . Time I never would have had had I not quit . Money from quitting paid for them . I want to say you are in control , take your power back from cigarettes from vaping or any addiction you might have . Life awaits you , don’t let it pass you by . Make the decision to stop and one day that light will shine upon you and make you a whole new you . Thank you to Quitnet members and Ex members for the support and encouragement to quit and stay quit . That along with my desire never to smoke again has given me a life long successful quit . No turning back , ever .