I cannot breath

[anaussiemom]

I like smoking!  That is the horrid part of this quit. 

I like it.   

Please I am not here to be battered or verbally abused.

Advice so welcome.

Namaste

[Grngyrl]

I liked smoking too. I was a closet smoker and started pretty late in life (except for social smoking). I started using cigarettes as rewards. I’m a health care professional and that makes it worse! Then a few months ago I started seeing the marks on my upper lips. I’m almost 60 and they’re the only serious wrinkles I have. Call me vain, but it took an outward manifestation to show how this was destroying me. No way to hide them or make them go away. 

[Barbscloud]

Good morning Kimanaussiemom‌   How is it going this beautiful rainy Sunday morning?   

[anaussiemom]

Im Doin Barb!!  I have taken up bloody Mary Sundays.   Cheers"



I can reach my drink though..

[maryfreecig]

I really like smoking. 

When I quit, I was horrified to discover that I found smoking the most satisfying activity. Nothing compared. Whether I worked, mowed the lawn, played the piano, walked--all things I enjoyed-- nothing was as satisfying as smoking. I was horrified, because I understood that this could not be normal, true, real. 

Addiction causes perception problems that can't be resolved  immediately. Time and just showing up for my quit was all that I could do for a while. I found it so annoying that I could have faith in nothing else but the cigarettes. It made me livid. Five years, seven months smober now, cigarettes no longer matter to me. But I had to proceed with blind faith and walk the walk instead of smoke-- my perceptions were totally screwed up early on. Dang it hurt to quit. If I let that perspective guide me, I would have missed out on getting over it--which was what I was looking for all along.

[anaussiemom]

thank you very much ❤️