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IS OK TO CRY

mivida2018
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Is ok to cry. It has been 90 days since I light up my last cigarette . It has been very emotional at times. The process of living without  smoking. There are times that I think I am not going to make it but there is time when I am so proud of myself and keeping positive that I am going  to get there where I want to be being free. I have been afraid of the days, the hours being afraid  of failure being afraid of the process of feeling sad and cry for any reason. Quitting has being a process of letting go something call my best friend. A friend that was taking my health my money and my time.  So IS OK TO CRY. When my emotions can be hold any more I just let it out . And I keep telling myself I am not going to smoke. I smoke for 40 years 3 to 6 cigarette per day. It has taking some time to get  used to not to smoke specially in the morning or when I will just drive on my work Van I am glad I sold it. My very bad days I am strong and just have to say NOP I am not going to smoke, So today I said Freedom from Smoking and with the Higher Power I will make it to the Mile Stone 

Remember, it is not really the stress, frustration or even the craving that causes us to keep using nicotine again, but rather our lack of serenity and courage to deal with the craving. Help comes from your Higher Power, from the group, and from your own healthy inner self! May God be with you now!

Living one day at a time; 
enjoying one moment at a time; 
accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; 
taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it; 
trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will; 
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next. 
Amen.
- Reinhold Niebuhr 

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My Name is Patty I am 60 years old. I stared smoking at the age of 14 I have no Idea that one day I was going to quit cold turkey. But here I am this is the first New Year and Xmas that I celebrate without being smoking. I have cry over this addiction I feel that I left a friend. A friend that was taking my health my Money and having control over me. It hasn't been easy But I am proud to say that I am on almost two months and a half since I had my last smoke. I want everyone to know that there is help there is hope and that there is so many like you and me so you are not alone. I never tougth it was a problem or I had a problem I used to run a Marathon, 5k. 10k and never had a problem. Until one day it was affecting my health and I was told by my niece that my sisters lungs collapse and went to the hospital but still didn't stop but on September 2017 I got a magazine and there it was Freedom from Smoking and it was free how lucky I was so I decided to go. I learn so much about nicotine and how to deal with the process of my addiction. Also I learn that I need it the help of Higher Power. I went to church and got into a program call CR Celebrating Recovery. The rest is all up to me.