Excellent post, Lady. As one who is going through his own considerable changes, I fully understand what you mean.
This smoking addiction is a hideous and vile thing that wraps people up in its layers of lies and deceit. It literally alters our thought processes to ensure its survival. It has no heart, no soul, no remorse. It will alienate friends, drive wedges between lovers, split families, and cause mothers to let their children go hungry. No thing, no one, is as important as it is. It will make a proud and honest person beg, borrow, or steal to satisfy itself. Its layers cloak the truth and smother the person it surrounds. Some it controls only lightly, others are fully enslaved to its command.
And, most importantly, it can be beaten. It is the most powerful addiction known to science and it can be beaten. Rarely on the first try, some battle it long and hard, but if they persevere they will triumph.
Keep up the great quits, everyone. :)
Shevie
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 5/23/2005
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 598
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 11,978
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2272.4
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 111 [B]Hrs:[/B] 6 [B]Mins:[/B] 32 [B]Seconds:[/B] 49
