Addicted!

Addicted!

We the OMG team want to express our love to all and to let everyone know that an addiction is one that can be overcome! We all have a story to tell and we all can elaborate on something that we might have been addicted to. 

We all have a story to tell but what is so wonderful about the stories being told is that we have beat our various addictions.  With the love and the support perhaps by family members or an organization or just doing it alone we can voice our accomplishments and let others know how we have overcome. 

It is power when we can honestly be strong enough to say "enough" and move pass the things that make us subjected to misery and pain in our lives.  I had mention that I had a story to tell and it is about my journey of overcoming smoking.  I really loved to smoke and felt the need to pick up a cigarette to just think.  A cig, after eating.  A cigarette for relaxation.  I was sure that I was not addicted.  I knew that I could just put them down I thought.  The struggle became real within a certain time period in my life!  

I stopped smoking one time in my life and I had help with eating cinnamon candy.  I had read that it would offset the taste and help one to actually stop smoking.  I had just purchased a carton of cigarettes and decided to just give them up.  I thought about the money I spent to buy the carton and said to myself, I'll wait until I finish this carton of cigarettes To my surprise I had this strong urge to just stop.  I did and I did not smoke for three years. 

I decided after three years, I was gaining a little weight and I didn't want that so I pick back up the habit of smoking again.  I continue to smoke another four or five years and I notice that as I got older I was gaining a little weight here and there, nothing to be alarm at but the smoking was causing me to be short of breath at times.  I smelled of smoke and the environment where I smoke smell also.  I hated the fact that I would smoke around other people.  One of the most awaking things I notice was the taste was getting nasty in my mouth it was like my mouth stayed dry all the time.  The tobacco and nicotine was so obvious from the smell to the taste to the aftereffects of it's smoke all over the place.  The most profound thing I became aware of was the fact that the price of  cigarettes had become so high I didn't want to continue to spend all that money on them.  I also realize within myself, I was paying the companies to kill me.  So the first thing I attempted to do was buy some filters to put on the cigarettes to hopefully cut down on the nicotine getting into my lungs.  That was a struggle because than the cigarettes did not taste good at all and it wasn't a deterrent it was a hindrance. I just decided to go cold turkey and now I'm smoke free and loving it because the smells, the tastes and the annoyance to others is all gone and I feel a lot happier since I can breathe a lot better.  

I figured why not be addicted to loving the fact that I can do anything if I set my mind to it and I kicked that bad habit, so can anyone else!

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Ima Yahruth (YBe)

YBe anything other than 1's self?