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When The Smell Is Gone

JonesCarpeDiem
8 12 159

To the tune of "When I'm 64"

I would go reaching into my shirt, for a cigarette

Nothing really happening there in my mind

Thought some nicotine would be fine.

Then twenty minutes, later it seems, I am needing one

What will be telling, when I've quit smoking, when the smell is gone.

I could go drinking, 20 drinks down, I could smoke 2 packs

Never thought about it 'til I heard this cough

Cough got worse and still did I scoff

Just kept on smoking, lighting them up

Breathing once was strong,  

What will be telling, when I've quit smoking

when the smell is gone.

Carrrying those damn green tanks...... is a giveaway

Concentrators are much smaller for a trip away

Now that I know I wish I'd have quit, 40 years before

Coulda saved my breathing and a lot of cash

Smoked five cars while vacations went past

Could I convince you you need to stop

'Fore your lungs are done

Or you'll be dragging green tanks and sagging,

when the smell is gone.

To be continued....or refined

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.