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Hello. It's been awhile

JonesCarpeDiem
4 9 241

Uncertainty>>>>>  We all have times of it.

Heck, I used to smoke the most in uneasy, uncertain times.

But, "I don't do that anymore."

The shots I got in my rear 10 days in a row didn't destroy the bacteria in my system. They've now colonized and aren't going anywhere.

I've heard two different trains of thought on this and I don't like either one.

I have no idea if this bacteria is treatable or hastening my end.

It's a scary place to be because before last year, I just coasted along expecting the best.

So many things haven't been resolved. We lost my stepmon 10 days or so before Christmas, my health, my teeth, my daughter's health..

Dads moving to a really nice place Wednesday. His wife owned the property in the retirement community  and it was undetermined as to how long he could live there. They will be sorting what's in her trust for a year. This location is the nicest and closest place to us and there was an opening. He falls alot and, at 96, shouldn't be alone for that reason.

His new place is only 2 miles further away than the 2 miles he is now so it will be easy to see him often. He's looking forward to it. It's a very nice place and he paid for this for 20 + years. It has everything he'll need and new friends to make.

 

I can't see the ending to my story but, before I got so sick, I never even imagined an end.

Smoking fixes nothing. I never believed it did.

I was strictly in it for the nicotine.

On another note, It took me a full year after I bought a much needed mattress to move everything into another location in order to take out the old mattress and place the new one. I just haven't had the strength this past year.

 

My one beautiful blessing has been Hoggie. He had a really rough time the 4 months I was in the hospitals and nursing homes. He looked like an unkempt feral cat when I got back. He'd lost a lot of weight and his fur had matting that I could not untangle. Every once in a while I could grab him and shave one or two off or yank at them but I couldn't clear them

Well, he took it upon himself to untangle every last one of them. He looks real good now and I have pride in that he did it. 

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           He's looking good and I'm not smoking. Could anything be better?

YES!

Keep your quits. Sometimes it's all that we have.

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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.