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If you are new to your quit,and even if you are further along, it's a good idea to start planning what you will do when faced with a choice whether to drink alcohol.
We know I will recommend against it - because you really don't know for sure your personal threshold (the point at which smoking "just one" seems OK). If you must, limit yourself to a celebratory glass of champagne to welcome in the new year - and keep it at that one.
Why take a chance? A quit is a terrible thing to lose!
Nancy
Such an important reminder! Happy New Year Nancy!
I’m old. I’ll be sitting my butt on the couch with my dog, boyfriend, and Netflix. Probably asleep by 10. Hahaha
Happy New Year!
Don’t Smoke!
~Kristen
Me, too - minus the dog and boyfriend!!
You should get a dog....
Yes Nancy, you should get a dog; in our home, we are 4: hubby, mom, Nello and myself; when the first 2 go to sleep, Nello puppy does not leave me, he sleeps by me while I watch whatever. He is not young either (12), and not very healthy either, but these do not stop him for showing his loyalty at every moment of our waking day...
I have thought early and often about getting a pet, but living alone, and with my health history, I just can't bring myself to do that. I don't have anyone close who could take care of one when I am absent. As well, the idea of a beloved pet having to go to a shelter when I am gone is more than I can bear - and there is no one who could step in if that were to occur. Just can't bring myself to be that selfish.
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In some ways I do understand you Nancy, I often say "if I go before my puppy", and I am barely 62, but you never know. One of the members of our little group at the park (as many times as we voted at the local park, the city never granted us a doggy area), lost his senior dog. The owner was 85. We were all meeting at the park every Saturday and Sunday, left the dogs run free around us, but it so happened more than one owners lost their dogs, and they stopped coming.
Arch, who lost Minga, was never the same. So he put an "order" through a Beagle rescue group for a dog: it had to be a female, of a certain age (senior) and appearance. It took a couple of months, but he's got his new dog; I don't remember the name of his second. But as "life" would have it, another year went by, and Arch left us. We never found out what happened to his second dog, we all knew he had many children, we all hoped someone from the family took the dog with them.
Our quits must be our # 1 priority so we can continue stacking up those precious Days Of Freedom so each evening we can say YAY for another Day WON! I don't think that I should drink for if I drink I do not think.......