Have You Ever Quit Smoking?
By Jeanne Marie
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
United States
December 9, 2018 1:47pm CST
I remember the day I quit cold turkey...February 29, 1972. Yes... it was leap year. Since that day I never took another puff. Oh I wish I had that discipline for giving up sugar.
I enjoyed smoking back then and recently a friend said something about taking it up again, now that she is old and won't do that much damage. It sounds like an interesting idea...... but....and this is a really lame excuse..I'm not going to leave a climate controlled environment to go outside to smoke.
Would you take it up again in your old age?
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7 responses
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
9 Dec 18
The Lord took my smoking addiction away 11 months ago and I would never go back to it. I'm so grateful God helped me. I had limited withdrawal symptoms, I really only cried a little bit. He blessed me so much!! :)
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
10 Dec 18
Good for you! it's not easy to quit and so easy to fall back into it.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
10 Dec 18
@Jeanniemaries Unless you were born again from it, set free and you have no desire for it at all! :)
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
10 Dec 18
I've wondered if that will be prescribed for me some day. I think I'd prefer it in brownies though!
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
13 Dec 18
As a former smoker, smoking was one of the worst things I did. Back when I started, smoking was no big deal. Today, it puzzles me why anyone would ever start with all the information we have.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
13 Dec 18
Especially at a young age since it doesn't take all that many years to do significnant damage.
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@1creekgirl (41747)
• United States
9 Dec 18
Please don't consider starting again! You have so much to proud of yourself for quitting. I never smoked (thankful now I never did), but my husband smoked for about 25 years. Jesus saved his soul when he was about 40 and delivered him from the addiction. I'm so thankful to God.
I just noticed, that's the same day our daughter was born, 2/29/72
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
10 Dec 18
Oh that's so cool about your daughter being born on the same day. I bet there isn't another person on myLot that knows exactly what they were doing on that day! I don't remember the message in church that morning, but it truly convicted me to quit. I was also expecting my second child and I wonder now (we didn't know it was bad then for pregnant women) if that was why it was so urgent to quit that very day.
@JudyEv (342088)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Dec 18
I think it is never a good thing to take it up again really no matter how old you are. I never smoked but love 'passive smoking', standing close to someone while they're smoking. I think if I had ever started I would have found it very difficult to quit.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
11 Dec 18
Yes, I know what you mean about passive smoking, I always notice and enjoy being close by when someone first lights up. Of course it happens less and less these days as I rarely see anyone smoking.... unless I'm at the casino which has only been a couple of times this year.
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@JudyEv (342088)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Dec 18
@Jeanniemaries I think it's the same there but here people have to go outside and they always look like second-class citizens huddled against a wall puffing away. Smoking has lost all its glamour.
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
10 Dec 18
I have often dreamed about smoking. I miss it too. I really hated to give it up.
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