I posted this on the Q in February 2018 My word is my bond Why am I...

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I posted this on the Q in February 2018

My word is my bond Why am I still quit? Well because I love it! I love the freedom! But also because my word is my bondMy father always told me that “someone can take away everything from you, home, car, property, even your reputation through slander, but they cannot take away your word”. My word is my sacred bond. I pledge every night and I pledge again every morning to not smoke. My pledge is my word, it is my contract with myself and everyone here on the Q that I will not smoke. To smoke would be to break that contract, break my commitment, break my word to remain smoke free. Just as only I can give away my word as my bond, my quit is also all mine to keep or carelessly throw away. So, when things get tough, as they have in the past and probably will again, I will keep my word. “Commitment means keeping your word long after the mood you said it in has left you”. Pledge every day and then all you have to do for the rest of that day is to keep your word to keep your quit. Not easy, but incredibly, stupidly, simple. It must be NOPE  Thanks (((((((Dad)))))))

Now what I should have added to that post is that I also gave my word to my little brother that I would quit and of course he also knew this lesson from Dad. I never gave him a time frame and he never bugged me about it, which was good, because he knew I would have dug in my heels, with my inner addict winning the deadly game. See, it's basically just he and I left in our little family. I held my Mom's hands, his Mom's hands (who was a great friend to me) and our Dad's as they all died very slow, painful and agonizing deaths from smoking related disease (of course I continued to smoke through all of it). I didn't want to put him through seeing me like that. My goal was to quit on January 1st 2017, but I moved my quit date up, for reasons you can find in my profile, and just decided enough was enough on December 8th, 2016. So, when I arrived at his place for Christmas that year, with 15 days quit under my belt, I finally told him that I had quit. I knew from that moment forward there could be no going back for me. My word is my bond.

I posted this on the Q in February 2018

My word is my bond Why am I still quit? Well because I love it! I love the freedom! But also because my word is my bondMy father always told me that “someone can take away everything from you, home, car, property, even your reputation through slander, but they cannot take away your word”. My word is my sacred bond. I pledge every night and I pledge again every morning to not smoke. My pledge is my word, it is my contract with myself and everyone here on the... Show more

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