Last Saturday was 8 weeks for me.
I have terrible allergies. No issues in 8 weeks.
No weight gain and cardio at the gym is insanely easier.
I can't stand the smell of them now. I don't think I ever noticed it before but when someone is driving & smoking in front of me I roll the windows up.
I had tried everything. I had every excuse in the book. I made it a year and a half smoke free but dove back in. It was always some weak excuse.
December 27, 2018 I spent the day at MD Anderson while my gal was having some minor surgery. Benign stuff removed. I spent the day there. Seeing very little children being wheeled around yellow from the chemo barely being able to hold on to their parents fingers is very hard to un-see. They got dealt a bad hand and are fighting for their lives.
Then sitting in the waiting room listening to 3-4 people with holes in their necks talking to each other is a sight I can't un-see. They were all smokers. They did this to themselves.
I have kids. What am I doing to myself? I am an idiot.
Left the hospital and right there was my old friends. I stared at them the whole way home wanting one. Got home and still stared at them. I wanted one bad. Grabbed the pack and watered them down in the sink.
The cravings went away. Every time I wanted one those images came back up in my head. Plus the happiness on my kids faces when they see me not smoking.
Being scared straight worked for me.
I have terrible allergies. No issues in 8 weeks.
No weight gain and cardio at the gym is insanely easier.
I can't stand the smell of them now. I don't think I ever noticed it before but when someone is driving & smoking in front of me I roll the windows up.
I had tried everything. I had every excuse in the book. I made it a year and a half smoke free but dove back in. It was always some weak excuse.
December 27, 2018 I spent the day at MD Anderson while my gal was having some minor surgery. Benign stuff removed. I spent the day there. Seeing very little children being wheeled around yellow from the chemo barely being able to hold on to their parents fingers is very hard to un-see. They got dealt a bad hand and are fighting for their lives.
Then sitting in the waiting room listening to 3-4 people with holes in their necks talking to each other is a sight I can't un-see. They were all smokers. They did this to themselves.
I have kids. What am I doing to myself? I am an idiot.
Left the hospital and right there was my old friends. I stared at them the whole way home wanting one. Got home and still stared at them. I wanted one bad. Grabbed the pack and watered them down in the sink.
The cravings went away. Every time I wanted one those images came back up in my head. Plus the happiness on my kids faces when they see me not smoking.
Being scared straight worked for me.
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