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Quitting smoking is easy . . . Quitnet Repost, January 3, 2006. A sobering thought. Keep the quit. Gene Quitting smoking is easy . . . From Peter_is_in on 1/3/2006 10:02:05 AM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quitting smoking is easy . . . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ¤ Easier than hearing your doctor say, "I’m sorry . . ." ¤ Easier than fighting cancer. ¤ Easier than laying in the hospital having radiation treatment. ¤ Easier than breathing through tubes up your nose. ¤ Easier than having a Tracheostomy. ¤ Easier than losing your vision (AMD-Age-related Macular Degeneration). ¤ Easier than COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). ¤ Easier than lying in the hospital wishing you could feel the sun. ¤ Easier than looking out the window knowing you can't go there anymore. ¤ Easier than listening to your loved ones crying outside your hospital room. ¤ Easier than researching for hospice care. ¤ Easier than preparing for your funeral because the cancer has gone so far. ¤ Easier than picking out your favorite songs for your funeral. ¤ Easier than trying to say the right words because they will be your last. ¤ Easier than your child seeing you die from cancer. ¤ Easier than imagining your child without a Mom. ¤ Easier than imagining your child without a Dad. ¤ Easier than realizing your child may need a new Mom in the future. ¤ Easier than realizing your child may need a new Dad in the future. ¤ Easier than not seeing your child's face because of blindness. ¤ Easier than telling your child you are dying because you smoked. ¤ Easier than losing a friend . . . or a friend losing you. ¤ Easier than imagining your spouse being alone. ¤ Easier than asking your friends to look after your spouse. ¤ Easier than training your job replacement and knowing why. ¤ Easier than changing your retirement plans or canceling them. ¤ Easier than going through your photo album with tears. ¤ Easier than realizing your pet may out live you. ¤ Easier than friends talking about you in past tense. ¤ Easier than realizing smoking was more important to you than your life. ¤ Easier than thinking, "So this is it . . .?" ¤ Easier than dying . . . Quit smoking now . . . start living life smoke free . . . addiction free . . . Peter _ ‹(•¿•)› ¯°°°¯¯°°°¯¯¯¯ . . . watching out for newbies Club Breakaway http://bc.quitnet.com/f/community/clubs/club.jtml?club_id=29452 points
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Congratulations @garry mhudson on eight years quit my fellow Butt Kicker! And thank you for sticking around to support those coming behind you1 point
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Great post quitting is easier than you think .. Our minds can be our worst enemy .1 point
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Good morning, This is another gem from my quitnet library. I re-read it this morning.. I wrote at the time that "once I internalize this new awareness (that smoking had anything to do with reducing or alleviating stress) , I (would) never have this psychological desire to smoke again!!! The only caveat is that this remains true as long as I do not have that next puff. If I smoke a cigarette. Gues what? The brain starts screaming for nicotine again. The desire to want to smoke goes away if we do not smoke. Keep your quit! I want a cigarette! From MutinyFever on 2/16/2005 2:42:26 PM I want a cigarette. The craving's been on me for days. I want one, and I want one now. I want to smoke it down to the filter. Huhn. Yeah. Big time addict jones. Stress, unemployment, worries, kids, my wife's health, all are weighing me down and I want to smoke, because addicts try to change their existential circumstances by changing their body chemistry. It doesn't work of course, but that is the failed way my mind desires. Of course, I won't smoke. I learned this lesson the hard way. I lost a quit, a very long, very successful quit, before because I believed a cigarette would help, that one cigarette was safe, that it wouldn't hurt. Oh boy, did it ever hurt! Michael 865 Saturday, January 14, 2006 From Gym_Genecanuck’s Journal This post from Michael hit a note with me when I first read it and the message is as relevant to me today as it was back in February 2005. My old way to deal with any kind of stressful event was to run to smokes to change my body chemistry. For some reason, I had this mistaken belief that cigarettes made me feel better. Well, I am sure that the nicotine temporarily gave my brain some stimulation and I made the mistaken connection that smoking had something to do with making me feel better and relieving the stressful feelings. This assumption was WRONG before and it is WRONG today!!!! I am attempting to write a Term Paper and I always feel anxiety when I write Term Papers. I know that this mistaken belief that smoking will somehow help is just that… A MISTAKEN BELIEF. I was WRONG to belief that smoking had any real connection to helping me feel better in any way, shape, or form. Once I internalize this new awareness, I will never have this psychological desire to smoke again!!! 61 Days smoke free; Two months, fifteen hours smoke free1 point
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Thank you very much and I am grateful for the site and wonderful folks that contribute so much. Hang in there all you newbies. Better days are not that far away.1 point
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Congratulations on 8 years smoke free @garry mhudson Great job!1 point
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I Will Survive (1981 Re-recording) Gloria Gaynor • I Will Survive • 2009 https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FHhZPp08s74&si=tIA5Eb6x0uUpVocG1 point
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Kool & The Gang - Celebration .... put your hands in the air :):):) Official Music Video for Celebration performed by Kool & The Gang.1 point
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Drying out in central North Carolina (Raleigh area) as Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 made landfall on the coast of the Carolinas. The storm did not fully reach the criteria of being classsified as a named Tropical Storm but people at the beaches reported record rainfall totals and some said the flooding was worse than recent Hurricane Florence a few years ago. Lots of rain and some flooding in my area but it was bad about 2 hours away at the beaches. Some photos here https://www.wral.com/photos-life-threatening-flooding-at-nc-coast-from-potential-tropical-cyclone-8/21627776/0 points
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