Gratitude on the QT

[KEL]

So many celebrations of smo-briety today, especially @AceWhite and a 1-year quit! 

I needed the positivity. Was in an online meeting this morning (NicA). Started out with lots of laughter and hope. Then three people in desperate straights spoke, one right after the other. All headed (shortly) for death as a result of this f-cking addiction. Only thing we all could do was pray for peace and ease on their journey. All three still smoking with end-stage diagnoses. 

As heavy as this is, as sad as I feel for fellow sufferers, I am very grateful to be a witness to this horror, so very grateful to everyone on the QT, and so very grateful I have my seat today.

Edited February 7, 2022 by KEL

[jillar]

I'm grateful I found support from other quitters too @KEL and I'm not sure I would be quit today otherwise. It is sad watching people with health conditions related to smoking continue smoking. I'm on a COPD forum and can't tell you the number of people there still smoking. Many of them on oxygen. I of course tell them about the qt in hopes that they find their way to freedom but for many it just won't be.......

I'm glad you are here and firmly in your seat 

[KEL]

@jillarThank you for sharing that. I suppose I am a bit naive. I remember my grandad had a hole in his neck, likely from smoking. But I was only 9 at the time. In my AA meetings over the years, I don't meet end-stage alcoholics as they are usually pickled in the brain. So it is a shock for me to really get what this disease does.

Sorry-its just a visceral yuck with a side of sorrow.

Blessings to everyone no matter where they are on their quit journey.

Edited February 8, 2022 by KEL

[Gus]

I’m also grateful for QT and those on board! I’m grateful that so many over the years have documented so much or even just a little of their quit experience for others to read and know that they are not alone in what they are going through but also that they can survive it! @KEL you have been such a blessing to me since day one of your journey on this train. So I’m thankful for you also!

[KEL]

@GusYou are sweet and I am grateful for you too!

I have to keep reminding myself that it takes what it takes. I am (WE ARE) so lucky to be here today. 

I get caught up in my everyday BS (can anyone relate?) and I keep forgetting that it is a MIRACLE I am not smoking today. And it is a MIRACLE that I have not had to smoke for 128 days. This is the longest I have gone without nicotine (in any form) since 1999. 

I don't really crave it anymore but I am super mindful of the danger my crappy thinking can get me into. Done it enough times over my smoking history and, as we know, this elevator only going one way (DOWN).

[Doreensfree]

This is one horrible killer addiction ...so many have died well before thier time ...

Family, friends ....

I thought I too would just be a number and die too....until I found you guys ....

I am so thankful and remind myself every day ....I found the strength to be free...

Every smoker can feel this ...if only they would believe it's possible ....

Myself and Jillar ...love to see a Newbie come here , desperate to Quit ....and achieve their goal...

I'm proud of everyone who is here and has been here ,who found their Freedom ..

[AceWhite]

My journey is I knew if I didn't quit- this time- i'd die a smoker.

Sadly some never find that strength.

Life is a gift- enjoy each day and live it to the fullest