Jan
This is from a post in March, I was at 34 days.
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Just to get in my two bits.
Each quitter is individual. Each person has their own reasons for quitting just as each person has their own reasons fo starting to smoke in the first place. Each person will have their way of "doing it". There really is not righ and no wrong here, only quit or not quit. There are some that are on patches or inhalers or gum, there are hard candy, soft candy, spearmint mentos, the whole gammut. They all (many of them, well some of them) filter through this site. There are those that try, there are those that do, there are those that pray and those that wish. The most important thing for me is that I stop smoking. Me, not them, not that group over there. We each tread in very dangerous territory if we compare, attach, depend on anothers quit to maintain our own.
The common ground that binds us togeter is that we all want to stop smoking. I say that we need to extend a hand to those that are struggling, those that are finding their way. It is not my place to judge them on whether they are quit for a day a week a year. It is not my place to judge them if they stumble, (slip) fall. My hand is out to anyone who can actually get past the stumble and get back up and get back on the quit wagon. There are very few that actually do this and the fact that those quitters who fall off totally dissappear saddens me because they are the ones that will be lost to any variety of lung, coronary, or vascular disease.
Doesn't matter to me what someone elses quit meter says, it matters to me what mine says. Doesn't matter to me that someone has been secretly smoking and they come back and say help me stop, I will extend my hand. I can not drive past an accident on the road and not check to see if I can help. This is one of the beautiful aspects of this site is that there are a lot of people of good intention a lot of people willing to extend a hand. Like I said in an earlier post today. Every word, every letter typed, every moment spent on this site is energy that is going into a quit.
Standing strong together. Life happens here.
Phillip
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Glad you are keeping on. Please don't ever give up quitting. There is nothing like the gift of life that you give youself in