Sorry for your loss. I too lost a friend to lung cancer. It still too me 3 years after that to quit! Pretty sad, what an addiction like this can do to you.
Best of luck to you and keep hanging in there. If there is anything we can do, please let us know!
:)
Karen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/1/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 8
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 170
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $40
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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First it makes me sad when someone dies directly related to smoking. Then it makes me angry at the pain suffered by those who loved them. Sometimes it is the anger I feel more, until I think about how most smokers feel - how they often contemplate the consequences of their actions. Then I'm sad to think of a person feeling that way about themselves. Then I go back to the fact that their death was attributed directly to their actions. Then I'm mad for the surviving victims - family, friends, for some it is a wider circle of influence. I think about the theft of the smoker's contributions (family, community). Then I'm sad again. Overall, I would say that it is very sorry indeed. :(
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 12/29/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 70
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 708
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $350
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 6 [B]Hrs:[/B] 17 [B]Mins:[/B] 14 [B]Seconds:[/B] 34
I'm so sorry to hear that gonnadoit. Any vehicle can be used like cigarettes - "second verse- same as the first". I think part of what makes smoking so unique is that it is socially acceptable and is insideos (sp?) in its attack. It can all be very sad, but so close to the truth of human suffering - it happens right in broad day light. It is so important for us to try to recognize what is important. Some of us just have a harder time than others.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 12/29/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 70
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 709
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $350
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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stickin,
Does that mean we are gonna think any more once we are quit? It would be easy not to and yet a shame not to walk through the door.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 12/29/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 70
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 709
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $350
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 6 [B]Hrs:[/B] 17 [B]Mins:[/B] 36 [B]Seconds:[/B] 35
Its hard to take Stickin'. One thing from this is our RESOLVE to keep our quits, no matter how difficult the moment.
I lost my brother-in-law to lung cancer 9 years ago. He smoked 2 packs a day all his life. He was 50 years old.
No matter how you look at smoking, its a killer.
Jan
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/13/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 59
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,789
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $531
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 6 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 55 [B]Seconds:[/B] 2
Hello precious and a big congratulations to you on 10 weeks today.
Ya know we get up each morning puff all day, go to bed, and do it all over again the next day. I'm been known to be guilty of that. Sometimes I think that we don't think, that is we don't thing about it we just do it. And that is why I think this place is good for people like all of us here, who have the insight and the ability to quit smoking.
I lookin forward to your three month and you have done a marvelous job!
Good day to you young lady. Keep the faith!
I had two dear friends, one who I grew up with as a young teenager, and the other I knew in my late teens, that died of lung cancer. One was just 49, the other 56, both female. Both smoked all of their lives. Too damm young to die isn't it. It is crying shame to see this happen. I quit two years after the second one died.
We will continue to think however we will be in the opposite corner where smoking is not an issue for us any longer, and so no more harm can come to us.
You can place it in auto when you determined that most of the smoking thoughts have gone, and if one arrives, you know that you have a handle on it
That is really sad, Stickin. I recently (this week) had a very good friend die. She made the Christening gown for my youngest child (who is 10). Katherine was 53 years old and I swear she died of a broken heart (her husband left her about 5 years ago). After he left, she began drinking and has drank herself to death. She was diagnosed 5 weeks ago with cirrosis. She died last Saturday.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 9/8/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 182
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 9,146
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1456
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 19 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 51 [B]Seconds:[/B] 5
