Just made it to one full month. What a fun day it was. Picked up my granddaughters at daycare and met my daughter for dinner. She quit with me. After dinner she ask what I was going to do and I said go walk at the Y as I am gaining to much weight. So my daughter, granddaughters (ages 3 and 6) and I walked a mile. Would have done more but it was a school night. Normally after dinner my daughter and I would stand outside the car and smoke with the girls buckled in their car seats. They have been raised on this so they think it is the “normal”
Hope I never forget the look on my daughters face about the ½ mile mark. She said “mom, look at us, we are being healthy, instead of standing outside the restaurant and smoking. She was right! I then looked at my 3 and 6 year old granddaughters walking with us. I said, “look at the lifestyle we are now teaching them.” There were so many times that mom and grandma stood outside the slightly opened door (so we could hear and see them) to smoke. How many times when we had sleepovers and I would say to them that I was going to smoke and will play with them when I am done. So much precious time was lost with my granddaughters because of smoking. And come to think of it with my kids. I smoked in the same room with them. But remember many many times that I put off their needs so I could finish the last puff.
I have quit many many many times before. This time I must stay quit. Thank you for this site and the encouragement to read, read, read all that I can. Also all the wonderful people here that help.
I hope and pray that I can be of help as well.
