Hello Frank, and welcome to Freedom
That's a powerful message you posted. It's strange, but in my smoking days I always used to read about drug addicts, and see movies about them, and I always used to thank God that I wasn't "one of them". I grew up in the 1960's, when it seemed that everyone was experimenting with cannabis and LSD, and then cocaine and heroin, and Iused to take a certain pride in having resisted that pervading drug culture. Oh boy, was I ever deluding myself !!!!
It was only so much later that I realized I was a fully paid-up subscriber to the drug culture of my youth .... but my drug was a socially (and politically) approved drug called nicotine. In later years, I discovered that many of my friends and acquantances from the 60s, whom I used to despise for their drug usage, had quit their drugs totally, while I was still inescapably hooked on mine. I guess that's when I discovered the truth in what you have said about the strength of nicotine addiction.
And here we are, you and I, representing the affirmation of the power of the human spirit. Two people who have lived in the abyss of addiction, and whose inner voice has told them that there is a better way. Two people who have met through the power of that spirit, and the strength of a commitment to find that better way, and to live a life as it was meant to be lived.
Thanks for joining us, Frank, and thanks for your insight.
Marty
NOT A PUFF for one year, ten months, three days: 12111 cigarettes not smoked saving $4,238.88: LIFE SAVED 6 weeks