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Selfishness.......And The Things We Missed To Smoke

JonesCarpeDiem
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People who smoke are pretty selfish to those around them.

Oh sure, they acccepted us and our crutch. What else could they do?


I remember sneaking out of church right after I led the worship service to smoke. [more than once]

In fact ALL THE TIME! The keyboard player smoked too.

We'd come back in the side door just before the last song.

Is that addiction or what?


I remember leaving my family while the restaurant bill was prepared to go outside and smoke.

What was said when I was outside smoking? I don't have one clue and I didn't care at the time.

 

There were plenty of events and special times I passed up because I couldn't smoke.


You can't get those times back but the future without smoking choices is all yours.


The damage to our bodies is one thing.

The things we missed out on [and may regret] are just as big.

When you let smoking go, it's a fresh start.

What are you waiting for?.  Join Us!

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About the Author
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.