is feeling OK
Doing better. Feeling some willingness coming on to make some big changes in my life. Exciting stuff!!
I am 39 years old, single, and no children. I am the Office Manager of my family's fundraising business. We help local high schools and humane society's raise much needed funds. I have been sober since 9/26/2004 and smoke free since 2/22/2008.
September 16, 2008 6:38am
I am continuing my path of sobriety, nicotine free, coffee free, and losing weight. I feel like I'm doing all the right things, so I want …
July 13, 2008 1:54am
Wow, I'm still smoke free-four months and counting. I hasn't been easy but it's had it's rewards. I no longer use two …
love ,lucy...
here's a present for your birthday. Hope you had a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
sorry you are feeling so bad. hope you feel better soon. quitting smoking is such a hard thing to do, you should be so proud of yourself. i'm gonna give it a try one of these days.
welcome. Glad you are here !!!
I smoked, pretty much daily, for twenty years. When I started smoking it was partying with friends. It went along with drinking or I did it by itself. No hangover was the best reason to smoke. Then it was a stress reliever, to relax after a hard day (ha, ha-it was really any kind of day), it helped me get to sleep, and I just enjoyed the high. At the end of my use I had to do it to feel normal. I bottomed out, went to rehab, and have been clean for about three and a half years.
I've smoked for over 23 years and I'd had enough finally. The consequences were catching up with me. I was using two inhalers, a daily and a rescue, and was wheezing a lot. Didn't like the fact that when I was talking to someone I'd breath in and wheeze. I was embarassed and ashamed-the consequences were upon me and getting bad quickly. I'd tried a couple times in the past, but they weren't serious attempts. This attempt is serious, and it's a bitch-but I'm doing it!!
I started drinking when I was fourteen, that's when I remember having my first blackout. I was a social drinker for many, many years and then I started drinking at home more and more often. Then during the last two years of my drinking I drank every day-a gallon of rum every three to five days at the end. I was going to kill myself but I just couldn't do that to my family. I called a girlfriend and asked her to take me to the hospital and that's where my sober journey began.
I was diagnoised in 2005 but suffered since the early 90s. Was grateful to finally know why I always felt so poorly and that it wasn't all in my head. I try to take it one day at a time otherwise I get depressed and overwhelmed. Glad to have friends that can relate.
I'm a recovering alcoholic, pot head, and cigarette smoker. I've given up all my past addictions and now I've developed a food addiction. I've been heavy most of my life but I'm at my heaviest now and it's unacceptable. I'm killing myself and I'm so uncomfortable in my skin. I know I am worth taking care of but putting the thought into action is my problem-always has been. If I can find the willingness I can lose the weight. And, thank God, I don't have to do it alone.
I was just diagnoised today. I'm bummed but ready to investigate what I need to do about the problem.
