In September 1997 I managed to kick the deadly smoking habit, one that I had had since I was about 14 years old and to my surprise I found it quite easy as I had tried to give up on numerous occasions before and had failed, but this time I was determined to do it and although I was going through a messy divorce and was under the doctor and being treated for depression I managed to kick it, read on to find out how I became a non smoker and how you can too.
I remember it being a Monday morning and the first day of the month and about a week before my Birthday and I had yet again been up in the night and had chain smoked about 3 fags and I was thinking to myself this is no good I really need to stop this, I was getting on for about fifty fags a day and at the time they were averaging about three quid a packet, I seem to remember that I was buying Rothman Royals with 25 in a pack and smoking nearly two packs in a twenty four hour period. Anyhow I looked in my pack and saw that I had three left and thought right this is it, as a Birthday present to myself I am going to stop this deadly habit from today and with that I smoked one fag then and another on my way to work and the last one when I got there and then threw my empty packet in the bin, now I could not go out anywhere, although being a truck driver and new at my company, I had joined just two months previously, I was given a job working in the warehouse and was glad as I was unable to visit the shops. I thought to myself if I could go just two hours without one I could do another two hours and I did, so now it was dinner time and I had lasted the morning without any fags, great I thought but I had to contend with the afternoon still and also had other people around me that smoked, I did not let anyone know that I was trying to quit but I politely refused any offers of a smoke that came my way. I thought part of being able to stop is being able to resist offer's of fags and also I am going to be around smokers whatever I do, so I just needed to get used to it, and I put myself first and got it in my mind that I was going to be a non smoker.
After lunch that day I was given the keys to a truck and sent out driving, I am unable to remember where but as I worked for a newspaper haulage company I had no need to go to the news agents as I had a copy of today’s paper so the temptation to buy any fags was reduced, anyways, I returned from my run and I was pleased now that I had gone this far without any fags and I just had the evening to get through, I quickly refueled my truck and was debriefed by Management and just got in the car and drove straight home without stopping, and I thought great since I had gone from about 7am that day, and now it was around 7pm, without any of those cancer sticks I felt good, I was not missing it at all and looking forward to my dinner. After dinner I bathed and went to bed early and slept well all night.
The next morning I woke up to sound of the alarm and got up had a coffee as you do and went off to work and I was thinking WOW as I now had been a whole twenty four hours as a none smoker, I thought to myself I have done one day and now I can do it all again and this I did quite easily. Find out what happened on day two in part two of this series.

How I Quit Smoking Part Two

Simon
20th Nov 2010

Source: http://simon-b.org/how-i-quit-smoking-part-one.php

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