If you are thinking about stopping smoking, or are struggling in your early days as a non-smoker, consider the reality of the situation. If you stop smoking, you're going to miss out on a lot!!! Here are just a few things you'll have to give up:
*Fighting the wind to light a match
*Standing outside in the freezing cold, raining, sleeting weather
*Walking/driving to the store at 11:00 p.m. because you realize you only have 3 cigarettes left until tomorrow.
*Buying 2-3 bottles of Fabreeze a week
*Cigarette holes in your clothes & car
*Dreading airplane trips/train rides/bus rides
*Leaving the dinner table early
*Cringing in pain when you inhale (while smoking) because you have streph throat
*Having people dread sitting next to you, ride an elevator with you, etc. because you reek of smoke
*The deep friendships you've made on the sidewalk (where you've been banished)
*Watching the clock in every meeting, appointment, activity because you're dying for it to be over so you can smoke
*Missing scenes in movies, toasts at weddings & parties, gossip at lunch, etc. because you're outside smoking
*Waking up coughing
*Making sure you don't laugh too hard, because if you do a huge wad of flem will get stuck in your throat
*Colds and the sniffles that last weeks and weeks
*The 3-second rule (if you drop your cig, & pick it up within 3 seconds, it's fine/clean to smoke) & the germs you surely collect
*Lectures from your doctor
*Yellow Teeth
*Dry dull hair & skin
*Your support of the tobacco companies
There are many more things. Just wanted to tell you the truth!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/24/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 32
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,138
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $208
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 17 [B]Mins:[/B] 37 [B]Seconds:[/B] 30
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Quit Meter
$1,140,525.00
Amount Saved
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Quit Meter
Days: 5565
Hours: 19
Minutes: 11
Seconds: 44
Life Gained
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45621
Smoke Free Days
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Quit Meter
912,420
Cigarettes Not Smoked
