MY STORY:
This is the approach that WORKED for me. I QUIT on my Daughter's 9th Birthday while I was at work in an Automotive machine shop. I was in the middle of resurfacing a Cylinder head when I went into one of my MANY coughing fits. My daughter had been on me for years about quitting but I never listened to anyone about that subject. I took my new carton with 8 packs left in it, my almost full pack in my pocket, and both my lighters and THREW them into the parking lot where I worked. Immediately people SCRAMBLED to retrieve those precious cigarettes from the parking lot! That was on November 18th 1985. I've NEVER took that first puff again and I NEVER will!!!
I had a 3 pack a day habit for 20 years. I couldn't function without that NASTY cigarette hanging out of my mouth. I started smoking in the Air Force when I was 18 years old. My BUDDIES?? got me to try one against my beliefs. I tried ONE and that turned into a 20 year ADDICTION! (What good BUDDIES).
I've had only ONE humorous moment when I was a smoker. That was the time My Ex-wife and I were shopping at a Goodwill thrift store and we kept smelling something burning. It smelled like an electrical fire. We kept looking for the Electrical fire all throughout the store. About 6 other customers were searching for that electrical fire along with us for about 5 minutes. We kept getting close to finding it but couldn't seem to pinpoint it exactly. Needless to say we were all very concerned that the store was going to burn down.
We finally FOUND that (Electrical) fire when my Pants leg started on fire!! As the RUDE smoker that I was, I had put my cigarette out by dropping it on the WOODEN floor of the Goodwill store and Crushing it out with my foot, (and my FRAYED worn out jeans with strings hanging to the floor Which needless to say had started to SMOLDER)!
As I look back at my 20 year HABIT It isn't saying much to only have ONE humorous moment to recall! I think I'll STAY a NON-SMOKER for the rest of my life. I Hope you'll decide to join me as an EX-SMOKER! I never cough any more unless I ACTUALLY have a cold or a tickle in my throat. I NEVER smell like a Cigarette anymore. I NEVER worry about flying in an airplane, or sitting through a 4 hour movie, or going into any public building. I NEVER worry about running out of cigarettes and not being close to a open store at 2 in the morning (or any other hour)! I'll NEVER worry about catching the grass on fire by (RECKLESSLY) throwing a lit cigarette butt out of my car window. I'll NEVER be a BAD example to my Grandkids by smoking in front of them. I'll NEVER worry about paying a HIGH tax on cigarettes. I'll NEVER worry about DESTROYING my (Now Healthy) LUNGS by putting that FOUL cigarette smoke into them ever again. And last but not least,
I'll NEVER set a GOODWILL store on fire!!
I hope I have been of some help to you by SHARING my story with YOU!
Now put ALL those shallow EXCUSES aside and WORK your own QUITTING method (Whichever one) that you choose to use. You CAN and WILL succeed as long as you WORK your method and in my personal opinion, (NEVER NEVER NEVER) for any reason take that FIRST puff again!!!! I've NEVER been happier than after I became an EX-smoker.
Thanks
Click HERE for Pictures of my Esophageal cancer caused from smoking!!
