Well let me think?

Cancer of the, lungs, mouth, stomach, skin and bones etc, Atherosclerosis, CAD=coronary artery disease, PAD= peripheral artery disease, Heart Attack and Heart Failure, High Blood Pressure, Stroke, Diabetes, Emphysema, COPD, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, Bronchitis, AND+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++........ 

Then your skin just shrivels up, teeth and hair fall's out and we melt into the ground..... Of course, we carry that old cigarette smell around with us at all times, hack and cough our way through the day and into the grave.

I am doing battle with a few of the above----------- do I want to battle more????

NOPE!!

I THINK NOT!!

Depressing I know so let's see, after a measly 4 months of a quit from a 50 year smoker.

Heart Disease is being controlled, I can jog, short stents, and take huge deep breaths. I look at a hill and know soon I will be able to climb it. My sense of smell has totally returned, I don't stink (well, depends on the definition of stink!!) Diabetes #s have dropped back to semi normal range, my skin is becoming flexible, my teeth and gum's are more healthy. I can see continued physical improvement. Hopefully I have derailed some of the above horrible diseases.

The urges or craving's have become fairly rare and easier to dismiss. My outlook of the future as a non-smoker is overwhelming and happy.

 

If your looking around and thinking about quitting, please pull the trigger! The help on this forum will support you, and the end "you" will be that confident, clean happy person you remember.

Let's do this...

 

Obviously, my friends and supporters are reading this so THANK YOU for being there for me, you literally saved my life!!

Sounding pretty confident OK....

I do realize lowering my guard and too much confidence is a killer of quits... Even though, I threw the Nicodemon in the fire and danced around it naked in the snow singing Kum by yah with a hot buttered rum.

 

Great write up @Stewbum!

And; congrats on making it this far. You've knocked the head off the snake so now things become more of a maintenance thing until you've gone through a whole year and battled all your triggers. 

 

What struck me about your write up was the way you are looking at things. Your view of your quit is positive; not a woe is me sort of attitude because you're depriving yourself of those smokes. That's the way to look at quitting and it's critical for a long term quit. If you're not happy about quitting, you're almost doomed to relapse at some point so keep that positive attitude and keep on truckin!

I'm so proud of you stew! You are doing so much better this quit that I just know it's your forever quit. Thank you for the great post  

48 minutes ago, Stewbum said:

Well let me think?

Cancer of the, lungs, mouth, stomach, skin and bones etc, Atherosclerosis, CAD=coronary artery disease, PAD= peripheral artery disease, Heart Attack and Heart Failure, High Blood Pressure, Stroke, Diabetes, Emphysema, COPD, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, Bronchitis, AND+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++........ 

Then your skin just shrivels up, teeth and hair fall's out and we melt into the ground..... Of course, we carry that old cigarette smell around with us at all times, hack and cough our way through the day and into the grave.

I am doing battle with a few of the above----------- do I want to battle more????

NOPE!!

I THINK NOT!!

Depressing I know so let's see, after a measly 4 months of a quit from a 50 year smoker.

Heart Disease is being controlled, I can jog, short stents, and take huge deep breaths. I look at a hill and know soon I will be able to climb it. My sense of smell has totally returned, I don't stink (well, depends on the definition of stink!!) Diabetes #s have dropped back to semi normal range, my skin is becoming flexible, my teeth and gum's are more healthy. I can see continued physical improvement. Hopefully I have derailed some of the above horrible diseases.

The urges or craving's have become fairly rare and easier to dismiss. My outlook of the future as a non-smoker is overwhelming and happy.

 

If your looking around and thinking about quitting, please pull the trigger! The help on this forum will support you, and the end "you" will be that confident, clean happy person you remember.

Let's do this...

 

Obviously, my friends and supporters are reading this so THANK YOU for being there for me, you literally saved my life!!

Sounding pretty confident OK....

I do realize lowering my guard and too much confidence is a killer of quits... Even though, I threw the Nicodemon in the fire and danced around it naked in the snow singing Kum by yah with a hot buttered rum.

 

^^^This^^^

Stewpot…Us Oldies love reading posts like yours ..

We High Five it when the magic happens ….You’ve got this …I am so,proud of you …

So glad you found us …xx

You’re amazing Stew! I’m just so happy for you! Wishing you great continued success with your quit!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 10, 20232 yr by Gus
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Amazing post Stew, inspiring!!

 

All those reasons plus we paid good money to have it all happen to us. 

 

There is nothing quite like total addiction.