Quitting Today - Smoking Cessation Message Board

serinity · 02-17-2007, 03:27 PM

One year ago today , I lost my best friend , my mother to lung cancer. Today I vow to quit smoking. I wish I would of quit the day I layed my mother to rest. Ive already done another years worth of damage, and for what. I dont know what tomorrow holds, but I do know I dont want it to hold a diagnoses of lung cancer. I never want my children to go through what I did.

I keep telling myself laying down a ciggarette cannot be harder than laying down my mother, and somehow, someway Ive made it a year without her and there is no way a ciggarette can have a tighter hold on me than my mom did.

Thank You for listening and please send some good vibes my way as I start another chapter in my life - smoke free.

SanyBelle · 02-17-2007, 03:36 PM

serinity, I am so sorry you lost your mother

I lost mine to emphesema and heart disease 10 years ago and I just quit smoking 9 months ago.

Are you quitting cold turkey? The patch, gum or chantix seem to help people quit and it gives you a better chance at quitting and staying quit.

Good luck with your quit! Keep posting here and let us know how you are doing. Congratulations on the decision to quit!

Memaw649 · 02-17-2007, 10:41 PM

Hi serinty,
I'm so sorry you lost your mother to such a awful disease. I lost an aunt that I was extremely close to to lung cancer. All of her kid (5 of them) and her sisters and me smoked. She begged us on her hospital bed to quit smoking. I had a cousin die last year of mouth and throat cancer from smoking. All the rest of us continued to smoke. My mother, God rest her soul, tried and tried to stop. In fact we all thought she had quit. After she died, my dad found her stash and a baggie of cigarette butts. This is an addiction that tries to hold on for all its might.
You did not say how you are quitting. Be it cold turkey, nicotine replacement, prescription drugs, lazer, hypnosis, whatever...It will be the very best thing you will ever do for yourself. smokefree.gov has some excellent advice and information on quitting. They have 8 booklets that you can download to your computer and read when you get the time. They have helped me a lot.

Good Luck to you and let us know how you are doing.

Memaw

mangojunky · 02-18-2007, 05:09 AM

Hi Serinity,

I am so sorry to hear about your mother. Congrats on your decision to quit smoking. I will be quitting on Tue. I have help this time - chantix. I have used the patch, which worked, but it was too tough on my body when I stopped using it.

I am glad you have found this board - it will be a great source of support for you.

Take care,
deb