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Saturday, March 7, 2009

I got her to stop...

On a long afternoon drive home, she looks at me, tells me to grab her purse and take out her 2 packs of Lights as she pulls the car over to the side of the road right next to a garbage receptacle. "Throw them out" she said. I looked over in disbelief, wondering speechlessly if it could have been so. Could it have been? that after 30 odd years of smoking, she had finally decided it was time? Time to finally listen to me? Time to be sensible? It appears as if my tantrums, my rants, the wicked looks I gave her whenever she lit one up, the fights, the ruined lunches and dinners, my desperate pleas urging her to consider the consequences of the worst case scenario, had finally paid off. It took a few years of fighting, but she had opened her eyes, and she could see...
3 months now. Going strong. Fingers still crossed.

2 comments:

poshlemon said...

I guess you're talking about your mother...

So it was cold turkey?

I will soon be approaching 1 year of being smoke-free. What a journey. I will write about how this past year has been soon. But you can check some of my posts back in April 2008 where I discuss my smoking cessation.

I hope she hangs in there. Every day being smoke-free becomes more valuable and for that, fucking up becomes quite risky.

Le colleague said...

You guessed right Posh. Yeah it was cold turkey and it does work apparently. I'll be checking your April posts. Looking forward to your update on the year :) Keep it up!

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