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Vent and Gratitute

Maki
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A grateful attitude can really change your day and your life . It can change how you think about yourself and your quit . It can change how you think of others and how others think of you . So if you have a vent , drop it and leave it , find gratitude in it . 

I am so exhausted from walking yesterday ( went further than I should have ) but grateful because I learned that by stretching my limit I could do it and each time should get easier . 

Grateful I stretched out not giving in to craves as well .. quits are made of "not giving in " and going "beyond " the limits of a crave . Each time also gets easier . 

I am frustrated sometimes that there are things I can not do like I used to , but I am grateful it gives opportunity for others to help . Grateful my family are helping make my load a bit lighter by doing some leg work and research on a new adventure for me .  Letting others do , is hard for me and it is taking practice to accept that it's ok to let others help . I .M.  Grateful I can learn to let go . 

This morning I have felt very anxious about something but I am grateful I know the root so I can change the outcome . 

If we know that smoking is the root of the problem , then we can stop smoking . If we know it fixes nothing , then we we know smoking has no use and therefore not an option . If we are experiencing anxiety of a known cause then by action we can change our anxiety . 

Today is a good day because we can find gratefulness in every day ... gratefulness in every little thing that seems discouraging or uncomfortable or scary 

                                                           because 

                                                                 All things come together for good . 

Maki 

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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 .