They said to tell my story and so I quit once in 1994 and then started smoking again in 2009 for one reason or another. I knew the second that I picked up that cigarette and decided to smoke it in 2009 that I was in trouble and would not be able to smoke just that one cigarette or smoke just that one day and now in 2016 I have been able to quit for 3 weeks!!! I cannot believe it!!! I have wanted to quit for so long!!! I feel much better and healthier and I love the money that I have saved from not buying cigarettes!!! I felt so stupid going into the convenience store each day to buy the damn cigarettes really not wanting the things but buying them in spite of myself. How horrible and what a bummer!!! I am one of those people who becomes addicted to anything and everything easily and my older cousin had inspired me to quit drinking when I quit that in 2010 and I had begun smoking again in 2009. My cousin passed away in December of 2014 from cancer and he was a smoker who had quit drinking. I visited him a month or so before he died for Thanksgiving and he was going through chemo therapy and he had no hair which made a visual impression on me and he had inspired me to quit drinking when no one else on this earth could or would before and I just remembered how proud of myself I felt when I had quit smoking the first time and wanted to do it again after doing it the first time for so long before. It really just amounted to not doing it one second, one minute, one hour and then finally one day at a time again. I am on a huge roll to be quit this long and I really appreciate the support I have gotten along the way and I found this website which has really helped me out too. I have PTSD and social anxiety and to quit drinking I had been walking a mile or two each day and I have begun going to meditation groups now too. I got myself an aquarium with 3 fish in it right now and that really helps me with anxiety too. I love to do photography also. My cousin and I had another thing in common other than addictions and that was that we both loved art and doing art. He was a recognized painter of portraits and I became a recognized photographer. How cool is that??? I am really grateful to be quit smoking for 3 weeks!!! Thanks for your help and support. moonmen17
