Quitting Smoking is Easy . . .

[Peter_is_in]

Quitting Smoking is Easy . . .

 

• Easier than hearing your doctor say, `I am sorry . . .`
• Easier than fighting cancer.
• Easier than laying in the hospital having radiation treatment.
• Easier than breathing through tubes up your nose.
• Easier than having a Tracheostomy.
• Easier than losing your vision (AMD-Age-related Macular Degeneration).
• Easier than COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).

 

• Easier than laying in the hospital wishing you could feel the sun.
• Easier than looking out the window knowing you can`t go there anymore.
• Easier than listening to your loved ones crying outside your hospital room.
• Easier than researching for hospice care.

 

• Easier than preparing for your funeral because the cancer has gone so far.
• Easier than picking out your favorite songs for your funeral.
• Easier than trying to say the right words because they will be your last.

 

• Easier than your child seeing you die from cancer.
• Easier than imagining your child without a Mom.
• Easier than imagining your child without a Dad.
• Easier than realizing your child may need a new Mom in the future.
• Easier than realizing your child may need a new Dad in the future.
• Easier than not seeing your child`s face because of blindness.
• Easier than telling your child you are dying because you smoked.

 

• Easier than losing a friend . . . or a friend losing you.
• Easier than imagining your spouse being alone.
• Easier than asking your friends to look after your spouse.

 

• Easier than training your job replacement and knowing why.
• Easier than changing your retirement plans or canceling them.

 

• Easier than going through your photo album with tears.

 

• Easier than realizing your pet may out live you.

 

• Easier than friends talking about you in past tense.

 

• Easier than realizing smoking was more important to you than your life.
• Easier than thinking, `So this is it . . .?`
• Easier than dying . . .

 

Quit smoking now . . . start living life smoke free . . . addiction free . . .

 

Peter

[catlover]

Thank you for your great post. I needed to read this today. Feeling a bit down today and always that whiny voice saying a smoke will make things right!!!

No it won’t..........

 

[Peter_is_in]

46 minutes ago, catlover said:

Thank you for your great post. I needed to read this today. Feeling a bit down today and always that whiny voice saying a smoke will make things right!!!

No it won’t..........

 

Hi catlover . . . hope your day gets better! Ignore the whiny voice  . It does get quieter over time, and then finally, gone forever!

[Whispers]

Hi Peter, love this post..

[Sazerac]

Great post, Peter.

 

[sgt.barney]

EZPZ

[Sazerac]

I know quitting smoking is far easier than living with perpetual slavery, slow suicide or gruesome death

but, quitting actually IS pretty easy.

Sure, it took me about a year to navigate my way through de-tox, craves, and triggers

but, that is short time considering the 40 something years I spent establishing my addiction.

The body heals so quickly, the mind shifts to a new consciousness.

 

I'm not saying it was a cakewalk into town,

it took determination and focus,  sometimes it took ALL I had

but, it wasn't THAT hard.  I  beat every damn crave.

It didn't hurt and the rewards came fast and furious.

 

I am not making light of the struggle although retrospect is forgiving and kind.

Still, even while in the thick of it, I knew it was temporary.

I knew I was going to succeed.  I never gave myself an opportunity to fail.