Good for you, Joey! Congratulations. Keith and I both do not smoke now, and Keith, I am proud to say, has over 3 months without a ciggie. He now says he is so glad he quit.
My daughter still smokes, but I do *not* let her smoke in the house. She goes out on the porch if she wants to smoke, and there is an air filter in the porch. Even though it is in the porch and she opens a window out there, I can still smell it when she comes back in the house. That secondhand smoke is just as bad as smoking, and I can't standa the smell of it anymore. I wish I could get my daughter to quit, but she has all the self-rationalizing reasons why she can't, one being she is currently going for her master's. The stress of school is heavy on her.
Now that I don't smoke, when I do see smokers standing outside in the cold, sucking on a ciggie, I truly do feel sorry for them. I see them as addicts. When I walk past a smoker in a grocery store, they stink, even though they aren't smoking inside the grocery store. The smokes hangs on their body, their clothes, their hair, their yellow fingertips and hands. Eww!
I am fortunate that I have good genes as far as aging. It came from my ancestry. All the ladies have good skin, but have you ever seen a lady's face that smokes after the age of 45? Their skin looks like a leather belt or a dried-up prune. Their lips have lines around them from drawing on cigarettes, and their skin on their entire body looks like a deflated balloon with creases. Men age gracefully, but women who smoke really suffer as far as what they look like as they age, especially when they smoke. A lady I used to work with was only 45, and she looked like she was 75. She smokes a pack a day. Her face has so many wrinkles, and she stinks.
It is so nice to have clean-smelling hands and breath. No more running to the store because I need a cigarette right away or going through the ashtray to smoke a long butt left there. And think of all the money saved from not buying cigarettes. Wow! Even Keith recognizes the money he's saved in 3 months!
Again, keep up the good work. Somebody shared this little chart with me, and I'll share it here for all to enjoy.
