Thread Options 
|
#144965 - 01/05/04 04:08 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 6,726
the sandy shore
|
You go, girl!!!
_________________________
I disbelieved what he was saying so hard, I probably created an alternate universe where it wasn't true.
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
#144967 - 01/05/04 04:10 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,675
Austin Texas
|
Congratulations elena - I would imagine that first weekend is the hardest - I worked for a banking center mgr that went on the patch several years ago, and she a jar over her fireplace and every day she would put the money in there she would have normally spent on cigs, and at the end of the year she went to Mexico on vacation - almost made me wish I smoked so I could stop - but then I decided that was just silly!!!
Congrats again - keep up the determination!
_________________________
My comments are absolutely no reflection of, nor influenced by, my employer - take them at your own risk.
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144968 - 01/05/04 05:14 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 6,153
|
Congratulations!!! Keep it up.
_________________________
Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144969 - 01/05/04 05:59 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Platinum Poster
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 832
|
Good job Elena. I am really pulling for you. My best friend smokes constantly and I worry about her. I want her to be around when we're old so we can sit in our wheelchairs and talk about the good old times.
_________________________
Marilyn, CRCM
I'd rather be fishing.
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144970 - 01/05/04 06:05 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 5,063
Pennsylvania
|
Elena,
I have never smoked, but have watched my mother smoke since I was born. You have no idea how much of a burden smoking puts on your children. They are being told and taught in school how dangerous smoking is and how it can kill you and then have to go home and watch the most important person in their world engage in this self destructive activity. I was and still am terrified anytime I am around my mother and she coughs. Each time she gets sick or goes to the doctor, I worry. Even though she has cut back considerably and does not smoke around me or my children, it is always in the back of my mind. For 36 years I have carried this burden with me everyday and have been wishing the day would come when she would tell me "I've quit for good."
Keep it up, this is without a doubt the best gift you could ever give to your family.
_________________________
Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144973 - 01/05/04 09:00 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Diamond Poster
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 1,357
A Grant Wood painting.
|
Nothing worthwhile comes easy. The ones you love and the ones that love you deserve the best you they can get for as long as they can have you! Quality and quantity - what a deal!
_________________________
The opinions expressed are what you can expect for the price paid.
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144974 - 01/05/04 09:13 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 5,184
All over the map.
|
Thanks to all of you for your support. I can't emphasize enough that this is a mindset, and an ENTIRE lifestyle change. When I take T-girl to Sonic for a coke, it is my habit to roll down the window, order what we want, and then light a cigarette while we wait for our order. When I leave work and get in my car, I light a cigarette before I shift into reverse. When I play cards with my husband, when I read on the front porch....there are soooooo many TIMES that I smoke. I have had to reprogram myself to not automatically reach for them, and even though I don't have a week under my belt yet, I think that this thought process is why I will succeed this time. (And the photo of Mike on one knee at the ice rink is a pretty good incentive all by itself!)
_________________________
On the road again.....I just can't wait to get on the road again.
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144976 - 01/05/04 09:59 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 6,153
|
My grandmother lived with us when I was 13 while she got cancer treatment. I don't think anyone who watched her waste away would ever take up the habit. That was the worst kind of death.
Out of 5 kids in my family with a father who smoked--not one of us has ever had the habit. Can't say all of us never tried a cigarette, but none of us ever "smoked."
_________________________
Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144980 - 01/06/04 02:15 AM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 5,184
All over the map.
|
Quote:
I've heard it said that coincidences are simply God's way of remaining anonymous.
I like that! Thanks for that insight. May I use it?
_________________________
On the road again.....I just can't wait to get on the road again.
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144981 - 01/06/04 04:08 AM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Member
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 88
Texas
|
Quote:
Quote:
I've heard it said that coincidences are simply God's way of remaining anonymous.
I like that! Thanks for that insight. May I use it?
Please let us all use it...it's a good one.
My husband has never smoked, but both his parents did. Just after we married, his father had a really big scare with his health and the doctors told him that he MUST stop smoking. He is in his mid-60's and had been smoking since his late teens. I was so worried about my husband as he was really frightened...and really angry. Two surgeries later, my FIL seems to be doing tremendously better, thank God.
I love the idea of sending money for the "wedding fund".
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144984 - 01/06/04 04:06 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 5,184
All over the map.
|
_________________________
On the road again.....I just can't wait to get on the road again.
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144986 - 01/06/04 06:26 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 6,153
|
OK, don't you dare make me come in one morning and see that you have gone back to those disease makers. You will be forever banned from Cleabatsu's.
_________________________
Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
#144988 - 01/06/04 07:30 PM
Re: Watch Elena Quit Smoking
|
Power Poster
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 6,153
|
Tiny has been instructed to bounce you if you show up smelling of smoke of any kind.
_________________________
Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city
|
|
Return to Top
|
|
|
|
|
|
It was worth it. My kids were worth it! Now I am super sensitive to the smell and almost can't stand to be around it at all! I seemed to go from one extreme to the other. I will keep cheering for you! 
Previous Thread
Index