Well back in 2013 I finally achieved my goal of quitting and here it is 21 months later and I am still smoke free. I will admit there have been days where I have thought about lighting up but I quickly change my mind set. It has been much easier than I expected it to be after having smoked for 47 years. I now find that my sense of smell is so much more sensitive and I can smell someone who is smoking 50 feet or more away from me.
When I finally decided it was time to quit, I began by every time I would smoke a cigarette I would convince myself that it did not taste good, and why was I smoking it? Then I would only smoke half the cigarette and put it out. That went on for 3 weeks. Then I started to take Chantix and that was all the incentive that I needed to accomplish my goal.
In this amount of time I have saved $5,880 in cartons of cigarettes!!!!!!!!!!
I no longer drop "hot ashes" on my clothes leaving small holes in them and my friends and family are behind me 110% so all in all I am extremely pleased with myself. I think it was the third time that I tried to quit and as they say "THREE IS A CHARM".
To those of you out there that are trying to quit it is certainly worth it and just keep trying because you can make it.
