Giving Thanks 2007
- "I am grateful for the friendship I have found at this forum. It has given me the strength and perseverance to have a healthy life not only for myself, but for my family." Carolyn
"I am grateful to be alive, relatively healthy, and to have a new lease on life." DK
"I am grateful for good health. I can remember being extremely paranoid every time I felt ill when I smoked!" Michelle
"I'm grateful to know that I control my quit and the tobacco companies can't push me around anymore!" Dane
"I'm grateful that since quitting, I don't have to worry about my kids losing me...and if they do it won't be because I caused it and brought it on myself." Momps
"I really like who I have become since I quit smoking. There's no more shame! I'm proud to be a healthy woman, wife and mother!" Carol
"I'm grateful that I made a year smoke-free, and that I feel 10 years younger." Chris
"I'm grateful for the new confidence and self-belief that successfully quitting smoking has given me." Joj
"I'm grateful for the example I have set for my children...they don't remember me ever smoking." Lynne
"I am grateful to be free so that I can live life the way it was meant to be lived, made possible in great part by all those members who grace this cessation forum..." Pancake
"I'm grateful I was able to stop smoking before it became too late, and that I'm as happy about the decision as I am." Judy
"I'm grateful for simplification. The planning that goes into maintaining an addiction is unrelenting. Smoking complicated everything." Briar Rose
"I am grateful for the inner strength that I have found to battle this addiction, which gives me power to battle so much more." Sue
"I am grateful that I had the strength to quit smoking and grateful that I found this forum to help me maintain my strength." Kitty
"I am grateful every day that I don't need to smoke. It feels so good to be free!" Beth
"I am grateful just for freedom of life..." Misty
"I am grateful for getting the opportunity to possibly be placed on the donor list for two healthy lungs. There are many tests to be performed and 6 months smobriety to get through before your name can be added. I know with all of your help I will be placed on that list on February 1, 2008." Jacki
"I am grateful for a simple word that has new meaning for me: NOPE." Holli
"Today, as I have been every day since March 4th 2007, I am grateful for my freedom!" Rob
"I am grateful for my freedom and the joy it brings to my heart. I'm grateful to be surrounded by the love of family and friends. I'm grateful to this forum and the life lessons I've learned here." Dee
"I am grateful for my wife. She has been my biggest supporter with my quit. Thanks babe, love ya." Heytherejohnnyboy
"I am grateful for this day, that I have my health, and my family, and the test and lessons of my journey through life." Blondie
"I am grateful that I have learned that I can do anything I put my mind to. I always knew I was strong, now I know just how strong I really am." Dana
"I am grateful to my son who loved me enough to ask me to quit. I took a long hard look at that request and said to myself..."I can and I will do this for Daxie." Daxie
"I'm so grateful for the self-respect I am earning. Life as a smoker who was committing slow suicide was not easy." Susie
"I am grateful to be free, free, free at last of an addiction that was trying to murder me." Jackie
"I'm grateful for the support, strength, courage and friendship that this forum has offered me and many others." Marybeth
"I’m entirely grateful to be able to live a longer, stronger, healthier, richer and more meaningful life." Sherrie
"I am grateful for the many friendships that have developed through this forum." Meg
"I am so grateful that I caught bacterial pneumonia and had to quit smoking. Somehow I stumbled upon this site and I am so grateful. I wouldn't be smoke free without it - I know that for a fact." Linda
"I am grateful the time I have left here with my family will be quality time." Freda
"I am grateful for my daughter who helped me realize that yes, smoking really was a HUGE ewww, just like mommy taught her." Loralie
"I'm thankful for newfound friends and the freedom and peace I've found since stopping the madness on Oct 14th of this year!" Cindy
"I am grateful to be able to breathe deeply of good Wisconsin country air." Lily
"I'm grateful for this forum, friends, and family. For each moment that I am quit, I become stronger and stronger." Christine
"I'm thankful for not smoking, my family, my friends and God." Jeanette
"I'm grateful for silence. No more constantly clearing my throat. No more smoker's cough. No more stuffed up nose. No more breathing through my mouth when I sleep. No more. I can breathe!" Sally
"I'm grateful that I opened my mind to change and became an ex-smoker." Dorothy
"The thing I am grateful for today is that having the flu no longer means I am dying from cancer. You see, with every little illness as a smoker, I knew(worried) cancer had came to get me." Ronda
"I'm grateful for freedom. Freedom from addiction and the fear that accompanies it, from shame, from embarrassment, and from feeling as though others judge me for doing something so stupid to myself." Jules
"I am grateful for my newfound empowerment." Debbie
"I'm grateful for my family for all their love and support. I am also grateful for the people on the forum for without them, I would have not made it to one year smoke free in September." Deb
"I am grateful because for the first time in many years my 14-year-old daughter gives me 'on the spot' hugs. She avoided this with a vengeance before because I stank!" Karen
Have a great, smoke-free Thanksgiving!
