Today makes one year without a cigarette!
I never thought I'd be an ex-smoker. I started at age 12 and smoked for 48 years. (Hubby still does.)
Twenty years ago, my mother died of lung cancer. I took care of her for two very long years as I watched helplessly while it devastated her. I still cry thinking of all she went through.
She died feeling it was all her fault thanks to a comment her brother made to her when she told him of her diagnosis..... "Well, that's what you get for smoking." It was so maddening and so beyond sad to see her emotional pain after this remark.
For the first time in my life, I tried to quit - for her, but failed miserably leaving me feeling guilty.
I had grand kids and though I never smoked around them, when they were old enough; they would beg me to quit. I felt the guilt, but I couldn't stop smoking.
Family quit coming to the house very often because, "It reeked." More guilt, still smoked.
Then a year ago I heard about the ecig. Hubby and I both agreed it would be worth a shot. I started researching online and bought us each a starter kit.
I took to it like a fish to water, he didn't. He gave up after a week, so I didn't /don't get much support from him, but by then I'd found ECF. YAY!!! (pom-poms waving here)!
So thank you ECF. Thank you all for the all support! Thank you for all the knowledge! Most of all... thank you for all the wonderful members. I couldn't have done it without you! I call each of you "my friends"!
I never thought I'd be an ex-smoker. I started at age 12 and smoked for 48 years. (Hubby still does.)
Twenty years ago, my mother died of lung cancer. I took care of her for two very long years as I watched helplessly while it devastated her. I still cry thinking of all she went through.
She died feeling it was all her fault thanks to a comment her brother made to her when she told him of her diagnosis..... "Well, that's what you get for smoking." It was so maddening and so beyond sad to see her emotional pain after this remark.
For the first time in my life, I tried to quit - for her, but failed miserably leaving me feeling guilty.
I had grand kids and though I never smoked around them, when they were old enough; they would beg me to quit. I felt the guilt, but I couldn't stop smoking.
Family quit coming to the house very often because, "It reeked." More guilt, still smoked.
Then a year ago I heard about the ecig. Hubby and I both agreed it would be worth a shot. I started researching online and bought us each a starter kit.
I took to it like a fish to water, he didn't. He gave up after a week, so I didn't /don't get much support from him, but by then I'd found ECF. YAY!!! (pom-poms waving here)!
So thank you ECF. Thank you all for the all support! Thank you for all the knowledge! Most of all... thank you for all the wonderful members. I couldn't have done it without you! I call each of you "my friends"!
