Sitting here sipping on my third and final coffee for the day trying to figure out what to post 🤔 hummm, well it's my 63rd birthday and I'm thinking to myself that I'm so very thankful that I found this community back in June 2014! I had just found out that I have copd luckily it was mild BUT still it scared the living Crap out of me! I'd just got internet in February of 2014 so I was pretty green with doing things on line BUT YAY I figured out how to do a search on quitting smoking there were several sites BUT this is the one I chose AND I'm so happy that I did, I read everything I could find AND I kept on reading THEN I picked a quit date BUT when that date arrived I wasn't ready so I reset it THEN for some reason or another I forgot about this site until around my 18th day when I felt like I was going to crawl out of my own skin UGH! I was ready to jump in my car and head for the store AND buy a carton of cigarettes SCREW JUST a pk BUT thankfully I remembered this site and got on line up until that point I hid in the shadows AND hadn't let myself be known anyway I posted on something AND @moody_9-18-13 whom I haven't seen in years suggested I do a post AND write a little about myself so I did AND here I am living my Forever Quit! There's so many people that have come AND gone over the years! Right now I'm thinking of our very own @Thomas3.20.2010 You are missed more than I can say! Your posts on copd helped me immensely AND they helped me to hang on tight to the best gift that I'd ever give myself THAT any of us would ever give ourselves which is the GIFT OF LIFE! My copd has went from mild to moderate BUT boy oh boy I'm sure that by quitting I've slowed the progression down a TON!!! Our lives are worth so much more than the damned Nicotine Poison that's for damned sure! As difficult as quitting is it's also very Doable! The CHOICE is Ours!
There's LIFE after the horrid Nicotine Poison AND it's pretty fantastic once you get through the roller coaster ride into that good place in your quit where you realize just how much better life is as an EXer!
Stick with N.O.P.E ~ Not One Puff Ever ~ N.M.W ~ No Matter what! Vigilance is key to Freedom!
