At the End of the Day

[Thomas3.20.2010]

At the end of the day it's up to you!

You can consult your Doctor. 

You can call the Quit Line.

You can read The Easy Way by Allen Carr.

You can put on your patches, chew your gum and take your chantix - all at once even.

You can get hypnotised, acupunctured, reikied, and shrunk.

You can come here and tell us how much you love to smoke, how much harder it is for you than anybody else who ever smoked, how hard it is to withdraw, to resist, to get your dopamine, to exercise, to live with the stress....

And at the end of the day it still comes down to you!

You have to make the unshakable decision every single minute of every single day of your Quit -

Not One Puff Ever!

Smoking is simply not at option!

I don't do that anymore! 

Not in public, or drunk, or behind closed doors, or in my car where nobody's watching, or just this once because....

We can lead you to FREEDOM but you decide to drink - or not!

Smoking is killing me sloooooooowly - and I quit almost 8 years ago!

Your choice!

Killing Me Softly with His Song

Fugees

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him, to listen for a while
And there he was, this young boy, a stranger to my eyes

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he'd found my letters and read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly, with his words

Killing Me Softly With His Song | Roberta Flack | Lyrics ☾☀ - YouTube 

[MarilynH]

Thanks Thomas, I'm so sorry that you are dealing with your health issues! Damned Smoking kills! Quitting is a choice that everyone has to make at some point and hopefully the choice Will get made before a Dr. tells a smoking person that they waited too long and to go home and get affairs in order! Quit now and get through the rough patches so you can start living a life of Freedom!

[JACKIE1-25-15]

Thanks Thomas, You always seem to deliver the right thing at the right time.  Thanks for your support here.  This is some more good info no matter what is happening in your life you still keep kicking it.  Killing me softly, one of my favorites. 

[Thomas3.20.2010]

It just came to me as a memory/ sensation of nicodemon. Seductive. Sweetly painful. Melancholy.

There is not and never will be another Roberta Flack.

[JonesCarpeDiem]

I don't do that anymore.

[Thomas3.20.2010]

I just realized what a mishmash this whole blog is. Mark it up to lack of oxygen - LOL!

[Mandolinrain]

It’s an awesome blog Thomas, as are you!

[YoungAtHeart]

I GOT it - I get it - no mishmash is your prose.

An addict's life story - right there in those words.

I hope you are feeling better?  We worry, you know?!

Nancy

[Barbara145]

Praying for your healing. You are so loved around here.

[Iamkfaz]

Everyone of us is here for you.  We love you!!!!

[elvan]

Thomas3.20.2010‌ You know how I feel...sometimes it is very hard to have hope that things will get better...they WILL get better and they WILL get worse.  We will ride the waves as they come.  We will not smoke and we will do everything we can to help others avoid what we are enduring.  It is difficult, it is sad, it is harsh...but not ALWAYS.  There are good times, there is sunshine, there is laughter, there are children, there is beauty around us.  You, my friend are beautiful.  I hope that you know that and that you know how very much you mean to all of us.

Hugs,

Ellen

[Mortalzeus]

This song has taken on a whole new meaning!  I will forever attach you and your story to this song.  Thank you so much for your powerful and positive influence on this community.  You are truly a blessing

Darren