Here it is June 10, 2011 and I am just now back to blogging after all these years. I’ve decided this blog will be more of a journal and hopefully it will not only help me but maybe a few readers will find something from my words that will help them. The subject matter of my blogs will be wide spread and not just about tobacco abuse. Please feel free to make comments whenever you like on whatever you like. I will likely be discussing things that have a great impact on my life.
Shortly, I will make a post to sort of “outline” who I am and as a 55 year old man with major disabilities and how I have fought to over come them. I’ll likely write about the major influences in my life that has brought me to who I am today.
Lets hope I can write about what is important but also not spill my guts to much on what should be private and not publicized on the internet…..problem is….I’ve always been an open, down to earth person and seldom hesitated to say what I think. There is a quote given to me many years ago from Jan K., one of my quit smoking mentors and it is from the play “Hamlet”. I have held to it ever since the day she gave it to me. That quote is: “To Thine Own Self Be True!” If you can’t be true to yourself, how can you expect to be true to others? Think about it
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My post from November 11, 2009: For years I have tried to give encouragement to smokers to quit. I have done my best to let them know they are not alone with their addiction. After much trial and error I finally got control of my addiction and haven’t smoked since December 25, 2005 and I even took control of my addiction to Nicotine Gum!
For many who know me they understand my obsession to helping people quit smoking stems from my loss of two sisters and a number of family and friends lost to tobacco abuse. The first time the term, “tobacco abuse” came to my attention was when I saw it on my younger sister’s death certificate and I have been using those words online ever since.
I have been managing a quit smoking forum called Freedom Village Forum since July 2002. It was actually created by members from a quit smoking forum called “Blairsville”. Because of my own mismanagement and inability to control my emotions many people have come and gone from FV and it has been a struggle to bring in new members to help them quit smoking. My hope had been that it would be a continuous cycle in saving lives.
http://www.network54.com/Forum/210097/
If you’re reading this and you want to quit smoking then I hope you will please participate in Freedom Village Quit Smoking Forum. If you are an ex-smoker, you too have a lot to offer the community by posting your experience and leaving comments that might help others to quit successfully.
