MarylandQuitter

This video is what kept me on the straight and narrow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVEyGdqwjmQ

Quit now and let your body get to the business of healing itself. :)

This is definitely a good one. We rationalized smoking so well didn't we? We knew it was ruining our health, would cripple and eventually kill us, yet we puffed away. Gotta die from something right? Yeah, right. Although this is true, we're all going to die and we'll die from something but does it have to be 20-30 years early? Rationalize your quit until you know the truth about smoking. If we rationalized years of smoking knowing the how bad it was for us, why not rationalize quitting knowing how much good it's doing for us? One thing we're all very good at is lying to ourselves. It's innate and there is nothing we can do to change it. We believe we're good drivers when we could be horrible drivers. We think we have a really good sense of humor when in fact we may not (shut up, Ava :)), think we're good cooks and the list can go on and on. My point is that we can do anything that we put our minds to and are capable of convincing ourselves of just about anything. We convinced ourselves that smoking benefited us in some way when in fact it did not. Use those veteran rationalization skills that you've honed over most likely several years or decades and rationalize your quit and never take another puff.

My thoughts are with you and your family. That type of stress is serious stuff and I'm glad that you recognized it and keeping it separate from your quit. :) This is a really good question and I've been thinking about it since I read this thread earlier. Smoking was definitely a crutch for me but I didn't replace it with another. Before I quit I still believed that smoking calmed me down and all that nonsense so I wondered how I would even enjoy my morning coffee without 5 cigarettes. Once I quit, I never needed to replace that "crutch" because I realized that it was just a false sense of security. I stopped believing in cigarettes and just dealt with life as it came. Great question. Some replace it with running and many other things that actually make us healthier (instead of killing us) but for me, I just found life easier to deal with without the added stress that smoking caused.

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I know for me, my family truly had not a clue about the addiction much less what it was like to quit. This is why I suppose my doctor told me to get involved in a support group. :) Nobody Understands What I'm Going Through Video discusses what family members can and cannot do to help their loved ones to quit smoking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9G8yV29vI

Nobody Understands What I'm Going Through Video discusses what family members can and cannot do to help their loved ones to quit smoking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9G8yV29vI

Cold Turkey Quitting Defined http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hcilP83CHg

Come hither!

One of my daughter's favorite songs is this. She calls it "The Love Song" and we dance to it. Cutest thing. Also, Tracey's new haircut looks fantastic. Thought so straight away. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6qUZeP5jA

Hi Old Gardener! Welcome to QT! Thanks for introducing yourself. Nice to meet you and congrats on your two months. The train runs 24/7, 365 days per year and we're always here whenever you need anything. PS, the coffee is free and don't let anybody (*cough-cough*) charge you for it. :)

I forgot about it and missed it! I watched on the The Walking Dead Website. I loved it! The beginning was freaking brutal. Glad the punk dude in the cabin got what was coming to him. This whole thing with getting that guy to DC is odd to me. There is something that doesn't sit right with me about it. The only thing I missed was I didn't hear Rick yell "Carl! I said stay back with the others!" lol

NOPE!

Looks like a very kind man, Nancy. Thinking about you. For what it's worth, this picture of Jim made me smile. :)

I'm watching it right now...had to stay away from this thread because I was too tempted to look at the spoilers. :)

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NOPE!

So he really is a streaker? lol I didn't choose that answer in Jenny's poll.

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It probably needs to go and be forgotten just like the Steelers loss to Tampa and the beating they're going to take on Sunday.

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So sorry, HM. Will be thinking about you and your family.