Post by KAREN on Jan 21, 2007 23:03:47 GMT -5
I posted this in Quitplan this evening. I go there daily as there is a Minnesota Forum there and pledge every morning or whenever I can get in there during the day. They have different fun things that you can celebrate with each milestone. Mine is 500 days smoke free today. I am now known as Lady Karen LOL. I wanted to share this because even though I thank Quitplan at the end of my ramble, I know I would not have gotten where I am with my quit without the help of all you here at Smoke Busters and wanted to give you credit too as you all were there when I struggled in the beginning and the year before when I kept falling.
Here was my ramble:
And I guess I can go by Lady Karen now LOL.
I cannot believe that it has been that long since I quit smoking. From woman who thought she could not get through the first day....through the milestones and now I am 500 days smokefree. I will proudly ride through funtown and enjoy the feeling off this milestone of being smoke free.
I have gone through the craves, not there like they were, the dreams, thank God for them, the stressors, and they are always there but I deal with them without smoking now, the good times of celebrating, the death of a friend, the financial troubles, health problems with hubby, other family issues, and low and behold......I am still smoke free.
I remember when anything was a reason to smoke, the sun rising, the sun setting, going to work, coming home from work, anytime in between, it did not matter as the Nicodemon had me for sure. It was awful how it had me for 24 years. I know others have smoked longer but 24 years of mostly 2 pack a day smoking was enough for this chick.
My mother and father both dying of lung cancer also was a reason to quit. I want my health. I want to be able to live and see my son graduate, get married, have kids or whatever he choses to do in life.
I love getting up in the morning and breathing better and not being out of breath all the time and smelling better too. I remember about a year before I quit again not being able to breath enough to get the air down into my lungs and then a couple months later being diagnosed with pneumonia..........AND STILL SMOKING FOR ANOTHER 8 months after that!!!!! I quit for 13 months at one point and started again and was convinced that I would die like my parents, or end up attached to an oxygen tank. Now I am running a bit and taking stairs and not feeling like I will collapse.
THIS IS THE LONGEST I HAVE EVER GONE SMOKE FREE SINCE I WAS 15 YEARS OLD AND I AM 41 NOW.
Think I will enjoy my NO SMOKING ROOM. I am going to paint my walls bright sunny colors with clouds and rivers flowing across them...peaceful like setting.
Thanks to the Q for giving me my life back. I will be eternally grateful for this.
*AND THANK YOU SMOKE BUSTERS TOO BECAUSE YOU WERE HERE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS QUIT AND I WILL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO YOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE ALSO!!!!
Here was my ramble:
And I guess I can go by Lady Karen now LOL.
I cannot believe that it has been that long since I quit smoking. From woman who thought she could not get through the first day....through the milestones and now I am 500 days smokefree. I will proudly ride through funtown and enjoy the feeling off this milestone of being smoke free.
I have gone through the craves, not there like they were, the dreams, thank God for them, the stressors, and they are always there but I deal with them without smoking now, the good times of celebrating, the death of a friend, the financial troubles, health problems with hubby, other family issues, and low and behold......I am still smoke free.
I remember when anything was a reason to smoke, the sun rising, the sun setting, going to work, coming home from work, anytime in between, it did not matter as the Nicodemon had me for sure. It was awful how it had me for 24 years. I know others have smoked longer but 24 years of mostly 2 pack a day smoking was enough for this chick.
My mother and father both dying of lung cancer also was a reason to quit. I want my health. I want to be able to live and see my son graduate, get married, have kids or whatever he choses to do in life.
I love getting up in the morning and breathing better and not being out of breath all the time and smelling better too. I remember about a year before I quit again not being able to breath enough to get the air down into my lungs and then a couple months later being diagnosed with pneumonia..........AND STILL SMOKING FOR ANOTHER 8 months after that!!!!! I quit for 13 months at one point and started again and was convinced that I would die like my parents, or end up attached to an oxygen tank. Now I am running a bit and taking stairs and not feeling like I will collapse.
THIS IS THE LONGEST I HAVE EVER GONE SMOKE FREE SINCE I WAS 15 YEARS OLD AND I AM 41 NOW.
Think I will enjoy my NO SMOKING ROOM. I am going to paint my walls bright sunny colors with clouds and rivers flowing across them...peaceful like setting.
Thanks to the Q for giving me my life back. I will be eternally grateful for this.
*AND THANK YOU SMOKE BUSTERS TOO BECAUSE YOU WERE HERE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS QUIT AND I WILL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO YOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE ALSO!!!!
