It just occurred to me I never explained where this logic came from...
My first quit was about 12 years ago and lasted for two months. I quit because a guy I'd met and got involved with was planning to quit so I thought 'what the hell, I'll have a go too'. It was a long distance relationship that crashed and burned relatively quickly but my quit ended when I mentioned it and he actually ridiculed me as if it was all part of me trying too hard in the relationship. I felt like a real idiot and smoked twice as much thereafter. Guess I quit for him, not me. The relapse was my convenient 'so THERE, you a******!'
Within two years I was dating and living with someone else who was an ardent non-smoker (NO idea how we managed to click at all). Needless to say he was perennially nagging me to quit smoking and the more he nagged the more irritated I became, the more I smoked (I'm sure almost everyone can relate to that one). It took me another 10 years to even CONSIDER stopping again.
If I had it to do all over again, I don't know if I'd have quit sooner but I sure as hell wouldn't have dated the non-smoker! For many many reasons ;p but for the purposes of this note, particularly because of how easy it was to find hard and fast excuses all that time...
This quit was for me. I want to be healthy, I want to be able to breathe, I want to be able to start a family without going through the emotion of pregnancy concurrent with the emotional outbursts of a new quit. Talk about a maniac, no thank you, not for me. Frying pan central.
So the moral of the story = the title of this thread.
Dig?
x T
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/1/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 367
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 8,441
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �2,018.50
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 31 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 7 [B]Seconds:[/B] 25
