Respect and support :tup:
I gave up three years ago having been smoking for about 25years. If I'm around people who smoke, well it's OK, and I get a bit nostalgic.
Though I won't let them smoke in my apartment.
No, not even my Mother, No, not even when she calls herself 'Your dear old grey-haired mother who gave birth to you and has travelled all the way to visit you'.
I remember not only what is was like to be smoking, but also what it was like to ENJOY smoking. I didn't have any massive doctors' warnings, though it was when I began to take a serious and consistent interest in what cigarettes were actually doing to measurable data ... pulse-reate speed-ups, recovery times after exersise, reduced weight of wallet ... that I decided to give up.
This is a slighly different story from a friend of mine. He and his partner are having a baby. Due in about a week. He rang me up a few months ago to tell me that his partner, being pregnant has stopped smoking and that he will stop when the baby is born. One of the things that motivated him to start thinking about it really seriously a few weeks ago was when a mate of his said that soneone's baby smelt like an old ash-tray. That made my friend feel very sick. It increased his resolve to stop smoking.
Re my having stopped smoking, it took a while to realise that I had actually suceeded - I never thought of myself as being 'one of those strong-willed people'
And I'm not going to smoke again.
I've not posted to go 'hey see what I've done' and so you can do it too.
It's just that since I'm one of the people who will make a habit of checking this thread and replying to your posts as long as you want/need, I thought I'd better give a bit of background.
I gave up three years ago having been smoking for about 25years. If I'm around people who smoke, well it's OK, and I get a bit nostalgic.
Though I won't let them smoke in my apartment.
No, not even my Mother, No, not even when she calls herself 'Your dear old grey-haired mother who gave birth to you and has travelled all the way to visit you'.
I remember not only what is was like to be smoking, but also what it was like to ENJOY smoking. I didn't have any massive doctors' warnings, though it was when I began to take a serious and consistent interest in what cigarettes were actually doing to measurable data ... pulse-reate speed-ups, recovery times after exersise, reduced weight of wallet ... that I decided to give up.
This is a slighly different story from a friend of mine. He and his partner are having a baby. Due in about a week. He rang me up a few months ago to tell me that his partner, being pregnant has stopped smoking and that he will stop when the baby is born. One of the things that motivated him to start thinking about it really seriously a few weeks ago was when a mate of his said that soneone's baby smelt like an old ash-tray. That made my friend feel very sick. It increased his resolve to stop smoking.
Re my having stopped smoking, it took a while to realise that I had actually suceeded - I never thought of myself as being 'one of those strong-willed people'
And I'm not going to smoke again.
I've not posted to go 'hey see what I've done' and so you can do it too.
It's just that since I'm one of the people who will make a habit of checking this thread and replying to your posts as long as you want/need, I thought I'd better give a bit of background.
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