This last weekend, I was at a friend's house and was actually talked into quitting smoking. I have been smoking for a little over a decade now, when I was younger, that time frame seemed so long; now that I am older, that just seems like it was just yesterday. WOW!
A friend of mine actually has me on a 20 week schedule to help me quit, although with that being said, I'll probably be done with this program within 10 weeks. See, I smoke a pack a day and the program that he has me doing is, on the first week, throw one cigarette from each pack away and two from each pack starting the second week and so on. I mentioned to him that when I hit the mark of throwing away a half a pack each time, I'm going to be so disgusted with this that I'm not even going to take the time out of my day to even go to the store to purchase a pack.
I've said all along that I just wanted someone that is relatively close to me to "make" me stop doing this. I've tried on my own before, but I've never actually had the encouragement and pressure from someone to help me do this.
I have been able to do this for almost a week now, and the first couple of times, it was actually kind of hard, but now that I'm onto my fifth pack of the week already, it is just second nature by now. I feel a little liberated every time I take that nice crisp cigarette from the pack and break it in half, it is almost as if I am breaking something that has broken me for the last 10 years!
I know that many people don't find this habit to be appealing, but if you can't get your mind into it, it is rather hard to actually fulfill the need to stop. If I am able to make it threw this and actually be able to kick the habit, I will owe everything to this man!
I'm feeling liberated every single day now! Thanks Chance!
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