| Why and how you should quit smoking53 years | | | | deteriorating.Me quitting smoking? |
| ago I had a friend and she was a girl.(not an | | | | Impossible- I have no willpower.Because I |
| official Girlfriend).Her mom smoked and | | | | knew I could not quit I never even bothered |
| worked during the day so daughter used to | | | | to buy Nicorette or any other stuff.So after |
| pinch her smokes and shared them with me. | | | | a whole lifetime of smoking I was going to |
| Both my parents smoked as well.So off and on | | | | die of lung cancer too.BUT WAIT: the story is |
| I got used to smoking; my smoking got a real | | | | not finished yet.On September 4, 2002 I was |
| boost when I became a sailor at the age of | | | | in Calgary browsing in a bookstore called |
| 17, because you could buy cigarettes tax-free | | | | Brown and Noble and a book jumped out at |
| when you were outside territorial waters.Over | | | | me.The book was called "How to stop smoking" |
| time I started smoking more and more | | | | and had 385 pages in it.I glanced at the |
| cigarettes and had to get up a couple of | | | | first couple of pages where the author |
| times a night to have another nicotine | | | | boasted that this book was the only way to |
| fix.Life without cigarettes was just not | | | | quit smoking without any withdrawal symptoms |
| imaginable.Going on an airline trip was sheer | | | | or without the Patch.I bought the book |
| torture because I could not smoke for a | | | | because I was curious as to what you could |
| couple of hours.We flew to Singapore once and | | | | write 385 pages about how to quit smoking.It |
| I had a couple of smokes in the washroom in | | | | took me 9 days to read the book.On September |
| spite of the fact that airplanes were already | | | | 13, 2002 at 3 PM I took my last drag and |
| putting people in jail for smoking.Over the | | | | exhaled it through a Kleenex.That was my last |
| years half of my mom's family died of lung | | | | cigarette. I have never even thought about |
| cancer.My dad's only sibling died of lung | | | | smoking. |
| cancer.My mom died of a brain tumor-she used | | | | |
| to be a heavy smoker.My dad got lung | | | | People can smoke around me and I don't give |
| cancer.After he got lung cancer he visited | | | | it a thought.The book changes your |
| me; he was a pathetic skin over bones man | | | | Mindset.The book is called "How to stop |
| now, wearing a corduroy suit, BUT STILL | | | | smoking" by Allan Carr, a British Accountant |
| SMOKING IN MY GARAGE.My brother's wife has | | | | and is not available in the United States.I |
| breast cancer; my brother still smokes | | | | no longer cough at night and the vision in my |
| cigars.I started having coughing spells at | | | | left eye is fine now. |
| night and the vision in my left eye was | | | | |