TODAY IS THE DAY...IM GONNA DO IT!

AngelaG2006

Well, after roughly 5 years of smoking...I am going to quit for good! It is going to be tough because I really do enjoy it, but I am ready to make this change, along with these other changes I am making for my health. I could really use some support and encouragement to keep me motivated in quitting, so please help me. I know MFP is flooded with support and encouragement and I could really use it for this!
Thanks in advance!!

LoveDaLibra

I believe in you girl! I kno it's going to be hard but I believe in you!!

MissYogapants

If that's your child in your profile picture than I'll be extra proud of you for quitting. My parents were very old when they had me (it shouldn't have been physically possible, really) and they belonged to the generation where smoking was something everyone did and nobody knew it could ever be dangerous. I grew up severely asthmatic. Several doctors said it was because of my parents' smoking (they always smoked inside, and sometimes had the window open a little bit, that's so idiotic I'm not even gonna talk about that part of the problem) and told them that they must either quit or start smoking only outside. They didn't listen so nothing changed. Already as a 7-year-old I started writing them letters asking them to start smoking outside (they would get very angry with them if I brought it up with them in person because they said I was just nagging). But still no change. When I was 19 I could move away from home, and it wasn't until then I started exercising and beating my asthma. The fact that I don't need asthma medicine today is quite miraculous.

Every time I see a child that has a parent smoking around him or her it makes me so insanely angry I could just go up and slap that mom or dad (but really, I don't . The smoke is everywhere around a smoker, in the clothes, the hair the skin. If they smoke inside it's in the wallpaper, the furniture, everything! (Smokers don't tend to believe this is true.) Honestly, it smells like s***, and it's very dangerous for anyone smelling it. Passive smoking causes lung problems, cancer and death just like actual smoking does, and who the hell want to give that to their child!

Good on you for being a responsible person and am now stopping with being associated with the rest of the smokers who still continue that awful crap.
I believe in you!

AngelaG2006

Wow, thanks.