When I reached the fifty day mark two days ago, I knew I definitely had something to write about! I’m excited about being tobacco free this long, for the first time in my life.
During the past month, I realized a few differences in my view of smoking. First of all, I’m surprised at the number of people I see smoking, standing outside of businesses on their break, outside of stores, even outside of the gym! I know that the majority of people who smoke really want to quit but just don’t know how (one statistic I read said this number was as high as 70%!). When I first started the process to quit smoking, I was scared. Scared of failure, scared that the product I was using would fail me, afraid that I wouldn’t have enough determination to follow through. I think I eventually came to a place, that made me willing to try to quit, when I was MORE SCARED OF DYING as a result of using tobacco products and getting cancer. Now, I’m shocked at the number of people that are still smoking when there are safer, healthier alternatives. continue reading…
