2 Sisters’ Powerful Quit Smoking Story
[ Posted in: Second Hand Smoke, Cigarette Smoking, Smoking Women, Secondhand Smoke on November 23rd, 2009 ]
"Both of my parents were smokers and both of them eventually died from it, but, since my mother was, throughout my childhood until I was 16 years old, an old-fashioned 1950’s style "stay at home" mom, my strongest memories, the ones forged in early childhood, are of her and her smoking more than of my father’s.
Bound up in my earliest memories of my mother - right along with the sound of her voice reading or singing to me - is the smell of cigarette smoke.
It is said that the sense of smell is more evocative than any other sense, more compelling, more associative, more able to create a memory image.
I know this is true because the memory of my mother is instantly, vividly and inexorably evoked for me by the smell - tobacco smoke mixed with a slight hint of fragrance from the Avon cosmetics she used - which permeated her skin, her hair, her clothes, her bedroom, her books, her house and her very life from as far back as I can remember.
Possibly even before, because the other sense which is considered to be strongly associative is the sense of taste and, since I was breast fed for the first few months of my life, (though, because my mother stopped producing milk when I was 8 months old, probably because of her smoking, I was given a bottle which I promptly rejected and began sucking my thumb - a habit which continued throughout my life until I started smoking!) I probably absorbed the taste of nicotine from her very body as an infant and so, when I tried smoking for the first time, the taste and the sensation instantly found a very old neural pathway and dug in"…
Read the entire powerful story here
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