12-01-2004, 08:29 AM
Good luck to ya dude. Any updates on your progress?
My Mom quit smoking cold turkey after about 35 years of heavy smoking. It was doubly impressive because she has degenerative spinal disease and therefore basically sits around her house in pain every day. She only leaves the house about once or twice a week because of her condition, aside from going for short walks if the weather permits.
Anyways, the point is that she is BORED OFF HER ASS. Just imagine how boring that would be. She's had this for over ten years now, with virtually no hope for it to get any better. In fact, it's almost certainly going to get much worse for her as the years go by. She is on about 10 different kinds of medicine, most of them for pain management. This is a person who had every reason to say "fuck it - why should I bother quitting smoking, it's one of the few things I enjoy doing", and her boredom made it that much more difficult to quit.
Anyways, she's also had two heart attacks in the last 5 years, and even that wasn't enough to make her quit. What finally made her quit despite all of her personal hardship and her 35 years of smoking, was her love for my Dad. He had a really bad case of the flu a couple years ago, and was stuck home from work hacking his lungs out for over a week. One day my Mom was watching my Dad cough like that, and said to herself "How the hell can I smoke in this house when he's coughing like that?". Seeing him like that finally made her realize the serious possibility that HE might some day end up with lung cancer from second-hand smoke, and she quit then and there. This was over two years ago, and she still craves cigarettes every time she sees someone smoke or when she catches a whiff.
My Mom's awesome
My Mom quit smoking cold turkey after about 35 years of heavy smoking. It was doubly impressive because she has degenerative spinal disease and therefore basically sits around her house in pain every day. She only leaves the house about once or twice a week because of her condition, aside from going for short walks if the weather permits.
Anyways, the point is that she is BORED OFF HER ASS. Just imagine how boring that would be. She's had this for over ten years now, with virtually no hope for it to get any better. In fact, it's almost certainly going to get much worse for her as the years go by. She is on about 10 different kinds of medicine, most of them for pain management. This is a person who had every reason to say "fuck it - why should I bother quitting smoking, it's one of the few things I enjoy doing", and her boredom made it that much more difficult to quit.
Anyways, she's also had two heart attacks in the last 5 years, and even that wasn't enough to make her quit. What finally made her quit despite all of her personal hardship and her 35 years of smoking, was her love for my Dad. He had a really bad case of the flu a couple years ago, and was stuck home from work hacking his lungs out for over a week. One day my Mom was watching my Dad cough like that, and said to herself "How the hell can I smoke in this house when he's coughing like that?". Seeing him like that finally made her realize the serious possibility that HE might some day end up with lung cancer from second-hand smoke, and she quit then and there. This was over two years ago, and she still craves cigarettes every time she sees someone smoke or when she catches a whiff.
My Mom's awesome