My sad smoking friend..has done it again...

[Doreensfree]

I have been telling you guys about my smoking friend..she bought a fancy box to transfer her cigs too,because she didn't like the new graphic pictures..well...

Today she buys a packet..with me looking on...when the shoplady put them on the counter and said 9 PDS..she said...oh...can you swop them for another packet ..with a less horrible picture on..

I'll have the one with the guy on...cos that doesn't effect me much...

And the lady obliged...

How sad..buying a packet of cigs to her has come to take so much of her time...im wondering what next...

[Stewie]

Try to help your friend quit smoking.  ;)

[Doreensfree]

Oh if only..I have done everything ,I have said everything..she has told me she loves smoking and will never give up..I brought her the Allen Carr audio clinic..it was never listened too..it just ...got lost !!!

It makes me sad..and scared for her future..

It has been said..you can lead a horse to water..

But of course I will keep trying..

[Dee]

It is sad it just sucks that they are so addicting...... I know many people that figure they will quit when the doctor gives them the ultimatum.

[Reciprocity]

It is sad it just sucks that they are so addicting...... I know many people that figure they will quit when the doctor gives them the ultimatum.

Or, not even then??

 

Sad to say your friend is showing the classic signs of denial, as we all did for so many years. She wants the shop keeper to give her a pack with less terrifying graphics on it. If I don't see what smoking can do to me, I won't ever have to confront it in real life; oh yeah??.  I hope that's true for your friend but the odds are stacked against her, as I'm sure you realize better than most of us here Doreen. 

[Boo]

Getting bad news at the doctor's office is the big fear of every smoker.  What's rarely thought about by smokers, it goes practically unnoticed, is the general malaise that is part and parcel of being a smoker.  Long before any terminal prognosis, the effects of poisoning yourself intermittently all-day everyday takes a toll on your general well being.

 

I didn't have any serious health concerns when I quit.  "I feel pretty good...for now."  What I wasn't seeing was the potential to feel much better.  I didn't really feel good when I was smoking, I just felt normal.  Normal for a smoker.  It wasn't until I quit that I really began to feel truly good again.  It's one thing to tiptoe through without stepping on any landmines for one more day.  It's an altogether different experience to actually achieve your physical and mental potential.

[Doreensfree]

Allen Carr touched on how smoking takes away your fear..this I think is so true..

Smoking my way through 52 years..I agree with boo here..you just feel normal..I had no idea how I would feel as a non smoking adult..of course I thought what if..but my junkie mind would dismiss those thoughts very fast..

What I have noticed in the years since i have quit..I often wonder if I've left it too late..have I dodged that bullet..

I now see just how precious my life is..

When I look back on my close call of amputation..I was not living ..I was broken..smoking has smashed me mentally..

That fear will never leave ..

It's a shame some of us have to wait for that feeling before we quit..

The clever ones don't wait for that..i wish i had..and I wish my friend would ...

[PixelSketch]

Getting bad news at the doctor's office is the big fear of every smoker.  What's rarely thought about by smokers, it goes practically unnoticed, is the general malaise that is part and parcel of being a smoker.  Long before any terminal prognosis, the effects of poisoning yourself intermittently all-day everyday takes a toll on your general well being.

 

I didn't have any serious health concerns when I quit.  "I feel pretty good...for now."  What I wasn't seeing was the potential to feel much better.  I didn't really feel good when I was smoking, I just felt normal.  Normal for a smoker.  It wasn't until I quit that I really began to feel truly good again.  It's one thing to tiptoe through without stepping on any landmines for one more day.  It's an altogether different experience to actually achieve your physical and mental potential.

^^^So much this. 

 

I didn't realize that my normal, wasn't actually normal. It was "smoker's normal". Real normal (normal, normal LOL) feels so much better. There is actually a real, noticeable difference.