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Maki
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Pup is still with me . She is slowly getting better but a ways to go yet . One day at a time .

She is allergic to every thing ! 

Her and I are still learning patience just like when I quit smoking and along with that determination to find the right combination to keep her comfortable and perseverance in doing so . The reward will come .

It's trial and error but we are always moving forward using new tools or coming up with new ideas . One day we will find the best treatment plan we can . The key is never giving up !  

She is just a bundle of joy . She teaches us things every day and her unconditional love is obvious when she lets me treat her sores , clean her ears etc etc . Those big brown eyes just say thank you grandma puppy sitter that feels better . She never has  been a wiggly worm , she loves being a lap dog . 

I too had an asthma attack recently   ( lilac trees and white fluff .. love em but they don't like me . ) smoking also triggered them but did I care when I smoked ...nope addiction won for years .  Not anymore . Took my power back . 

Glad it wasn't Covid ..

Anyway grandpup and I we are quite the pair . I have her 2 more weeks , so by then she should be strutting her stuff . 

Just thought I'd stop in to update ya all . Thank you for the best wishes and prayers for her and for us . 

Hope you are all doing well , staying safe and keeping the quit . 

Was just thinking I'm sure this pup would be allergic to smoke too , so I am glad I don't do that anymore and no smokers in the family at all ! 

I will touch base again in a few days when I can . 

Hey , btw a shout out to the moving club ...and to newbies 

               Its the first time in a long time thanks to quitting smoking that I am able to look after mowing a couple yards . Ya me ... with moderate copd mowing not one but two lawns without stopping for breath .

               I owe that to quitting smoking and walking  !  

               Keep up the good work everyone . It does pay off . 

 

Maki 

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Smoker of 28 years . COPD recipient . My biggest help to quit was to read other successful quitters testimony . I’ll have a thirteen years quit June 30 , 2024 . Biggest lesson learned : I learned the “Just one” lesson . You can never have just one .It is the the key to everyone’s quit . Having “ none” is the easy way to quit smoking . 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 , nope is it , however it will be the process of self discovery for you to find that out for yourself . How long will that be ? Up to you . 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 .