Nickname: Dee
Quit Date: March 18, 2003
Dee's 6 Month Milestone
I think of Dee as a deep well of strength. She has a quiet dignity about her and a straight forward, caring way of communicating with others. She weathered some significant storms in her life during the first year of smoking cessation, but they only worked to fortify her resolve.
Another one of our moderators with a gift for writing, Dee has shared some powerful accounts of how smoking cessation changed her life.
From Dee:
- "With an almost 2 pack a day addiction; with a chest cold and horrible coughing that suggested that someone needed to take pity on me and make an immediate call to an ambulance service; there I was sitting on the side of the bed with a cigarette dangling from my mouth and lighter in hand trying to breath shallow little breaths so I wouldn’t cough my fool head off while lighting my first cigarette of the day.
"Something snapped. I took a long hard look at the cigarette and lighter and threw them across the room. The rage that I felt was fierce. After smoking for more than 30 years, I hated it!"
Dee sees the best in others and is a strong, steady influence at the smoking cessation forum. I am grateful for her help as a moderator.
