Thanks, Heidi. These things are always dicey, particularly since it’s so hard to know whether saying something will help, or engender stronger determination to keep right on going. What did your relative do? At any rate, I’m glad you were able to quit. I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life, but I also lost a bunch of weight and have kept most of it off for 13 years. Not easy, and if anyone was ever so foolish to say I should lose weight, it always made me want to head straight for the Haagen-Dazs. We are wondrous and defiant creatures!
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]]>Thanks, Janine. I hope you are right about poems and pleas, but they can also backfire.
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