Post by Flo on Aug 11, 2006 17:01:20 GMT -5
As you may have noticed, I've been doing a lot of reading on the site. Excellent articles. I've noticed that some of them concern depression and quitting. It got me thinking. Ever since I quit smoking, I have not had any depressing thoughts. That's not to say I WON'T have any in the future as this may just be due to the fact that I'm still in the honeymoon stage of my quit (though it is quite long don't you agree but I must comment that I think that smoking brought on depression for me. Not depression in the clinical sense, but rather depressing thoughts which I would have to get over.
I think that it made me see visions of me with an oxygen tank, with a bald head after chemo, of getting old and grizzly and wrinkled from smoking, from spending all this money on cigarettes, of being ostracized from society, and basically giving me a very negative, depressing view of my future if I continued to smoke and of course, feeling that I'd never be able to quit and that I'd be stuck with it for the rest of my miserable life.
So, quitting has released a great deal of energy for me and made me quite overjoyed in not smoking.
The peace of mind that quitting has brought is immeasureable and totally unforeseen.
p.s. I got my pulse taken at lunch today and it is 68 which apparently is very good.
Have a great weekend everyone! I'm planning to have a picnic by the beach this weekend if the sun comes back. It's been hiding all week...
I think that it made me see visions of me with an oxygen tank, with a bald head after chemo, of getting old and grizzly and wrinkled from smoking, from spending all this money on cigarettes, of being ostracized from society, and basically giving me a very negative, depressing view of my future if I continued to smoke and of course, feeling that I'd never be able to quit and that I'd be stuck with it for the rest of my miserable life.
So, quitting has released a great deal of energy for me and made me quite overjoyed in not smoking.
The peace of mind that quitting has brought is immeasureable and totally unforeseen.
p.s. I got my pulse taken at lunch today and it is 68 which apparently is very good.
Have a great weekend everyone! I'm planning to have a picnic by the beach this weekend if the sun comes back. It's been hiding all week...