Romancing the Smoke

3 12 84

We all do it, before we quit... In the early days the terrible addiction to the drug Nicotine makes us “Romance the Smoke”. Let me be clear on this... When quitting, we all have to use the power of choice to stay quit!

Romancing the smoke are lies we tell ourselves! And the lies are the essence of the Nicotine addiction! I spent decades “Romancing the Smoke” and guess what my reward was? COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).

Please don’t do that to yourself! Be smarter than I was! Do you want to have to inhale drugs twice a day to keep your lungs clear from mucous and congestion?... Because your lungs are so damaged they can no longer clear themselves?... Sometimes when I get very excited or very emotional I cannot breathe at all... and I gasp for breath and it is totally horrifying!

Click on the link below to learn the awful truth of "Romancing the Smoke"...

https://quitbychoice.com/staying-quit/romancing-the-smoke/

12 Comments

You must be a registered user to add a comment. If you've already registered, sign in. Otherwise, register and sign in.

Comment

About the Author

I was 57 years old and smoking like a chimney in September 2003. I was also having medical problems and upon my doctor’s diagnosis, I knew I had to quit smoking. I was scheduled and admitted to the hospital in October 2003. I had a total hysterectomy and was recuperating, when a nurse found me upset in my room and she told me to try to calm down, and take a deep breath… I could not take a deep breath! In fact, I had to be put on oxygen immediately! I was terrified. A medical specialist was brought in, and that is when I learned I had COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). My x-rays confirmed it, and the direct cause was smoking [since I was 15 years old]. I had double pneumonia as an infant, so my lungs were fragile, even when I was very young… I had to stay an extra week and they pumped steroids and antibiotics in my arm so I could breathe on my own, again. My nose got so sore with those oxygen cannulas in both nostrils. Hindsight is always 20/20. I should have never started smoking. However, peer pressure was awful when I was 15 years old. A few of my classmates dared me to light up and smoke one… I remember that first taste and how I coughed from the smoke. It was awful! But I wanted to “belong”, so I smoked until the addiction took hold of me! Back to the hospital room… I was terrified. I quit. I stayed that way for six whole months. My husband, Ed quit with me. We were doing great and then one day I said to him, “My life feels empty. Do you think we’ve got this quitting thing under control? Do you think we can have just a few a day? Before I could say another word, he was off in the car to buy some cigarettes… We both lit up when he returned, and I felt like my throat and lungs were on fire! I smashed it out and coughed! “I will never do that again!” But an addict’s lies are just that! Before long I was smoking over a pack a day again… The truth is that I had no idea how terrible the “addiction” to the drug Nicotine was. I smoked for another decade or two and each day I would tell myself that I would quit “tomorrow”. Don’t be as naïve’ as I was about this slowly killing addiction! Quit now! I would not be using two inhalers if I would have kept my quit way back then…

EX Community

Romancing the Smoke

Does romancing the memories of smoking

Romancing the smokes...

Romancing the Smoke