I have read many of your blogs and found so much encouragement. When I go to bed in an hour that will be the last time I will EVER smoke! It hasn't been an easy road to get here. I tried on my own last month, with little support from my husband, much support from friends and family and yet I still failed. 😞
At first I quit because I have wanted to for so long I said nothing, after the first week I told a couple close friends and their support was amazing! I felt amazing, my cough was going away, I could take a deep breath with out choking, I was sleep better, I was even starting to do yoga again and not feeling like I was going to die from lack of air.
After the second week, my husband noticed (he is a smoker) but he said nothing and offered nothing, I looked again to my friends/co-workers for support and while it was there, my confidence wavered because my spouse had made comments to some of our friends, such as: "yeah well see how long she lasts", I knew this was just his rejection of having his "addiction" partner, so I stayed strong and confident.
I had a slip at week 3 and his comment to me "well you tried". A few days later i gave up on myself.
A couple days later after starting to feel again the bad things of smoking, coughing, no air, etc..I joined this community. It wouldn't let me pick a date sooner than 2 weeks from the date of my sign up, so here we are, tomorrow 11-11-11 is MY DATE! And I am fully ready, have been, but did the plan to get to this point.
Why do I share all this, because you all can relate! And now I have not just my friends and co-workers to lean on, but all of you who are in this super hard, but do-able mission to rid ourselves of this white tube of death, that could really care less about us, it will smoke without our mouth being on it, it just likes that we do puff on it, spend our money on it and depend on it! I AM DONE!
