Decisions!...Decisions...Decisions?

[akimmel1302]

So i cant smoke right now because of an aftercare i have for a rehab...now...in 1 month that is a different story...i glamorize in my head so much but i dont want to because everyone tells me i shouldnt smoke or dip or chaw or snuff or whatever....now...am i listening? i am but i will not apply it...do i have to figure out the terribleness by myself or what? what should i do??!!!

-kimmel

[Jwife22]

Hi kimmel-

You won't quit until you are ready to. That's just how it is! Its easy to glamourize smoking since its legal and so many people do it. Its easy to slip back into smoking just one because its EVERYWHERE. You just have to want to not smoke any more, not because people tell you its bad for you, you know that already but because you are tired of it! I do promise that it makes life a little easier to not smoke.

[kelsh]

Hi kimmel...

I quit smoking four years ago. It was very hard but I finally did it. I had tried quitting several times and always started smoking again.

My Mom died from complications with COPD from her smoking and spent the last two years of her life on a respirator and feeding tube in a specialized nursing home. She was too weak to eat and it compromised her breathing.

I did not want to live out my last years like that. I had been told that I possibly was in the beginning stage of COPD when I was hospitalized with pneumonia. That is when I made the final decision to quit.

I joined a Quit Smoking Forum on the Internet, started working jigsaw puzzles & kept my hands and mind busy as I could and made it.

I am lucky because now I don't have any signs or symptoms of COPD but certainly could if I smoked one cigarette on the way to thousands.

kelsh