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Pastimes : Smoking Is Good For You! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (252)	7/14/2004 12:00:11 PM
From: mr.mark	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 298

i quit in 1995, on 12/20 i quit on that date to make it tougher on myself... 5 days before christmas and you know all the stress that the holidays bring on. plus new years was coming too, so quitting would be even more difficult. we hear so many say... i'm going to quit after this date or that date, so i took a contrary approach what has made me successful is that i envisioned myself twenty years from now lying in a hospital bed, tubes sticking out of me, prognosis... he-ain't-leaving-this-room i envisioned all the people living and laughing (and yes, suffering and crying too) and i felt what it was like to be counted out of that luxury. the luxury of living. i imagined that at that moment twenty years in the future, i would be lying in that hospital bed so sorry and so stricken by my own inability to quit when it mattered... twenty years ago.... or the present. i was bright enough and strong enough to finally understand and accept that it was all in my hands. literally i held my life in my hands Today. so i stopped. i altered the course of the future. i kept myself out of that hospital bed. there will be no anger or sorrow twenty years hence and i'm sharing this now not so much because i am so proud (hell i save my life every day when i don't step in front of a speeding car), but because someone might see something or hear something that they can make their own