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In reply to the discussion: Any ex-smokers miss smoking? [View all]Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)19. Nope. It's been something like 20 years or so. It never even crosses my mind anymore.
One day I was a smoker for 45 years, and the next day I was a non-smoker. I spent years and years "trying" to quit, and then one day, I stopped "trying" and just quit. And never looked back. It was the day I sat in the doctor's office with my wife and listened as the doctor told her she had terminal lung cancer. It all got very real that day, and I suddenly realized that I had never taken the possible consequences seriously. I always "knew" that smoking was seriously bad for me, I just never KNEW it. That day the truth sank in, and I realized that "the truth will set you free" only works when you KNOW the truth.
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Nope. It's been something like 20 years or so. It never even crosses my mind anymore.
Binkie The Clown
Oct 2021
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