So, in the time I was away and not keeping up with the forum etc, I managed to do something that could be considered an achievement.
It's only been 6 months (from the 1st week of October 2016) but one day I said "no more" and that was it. I amazed myself really since in the many years I was a smoker it gave me the horrors to even think about quitting. I tried halfheartedly a few times but never really gave it a concerted effort. To say cigarettes were a crutch would be an understatement.
However, I don't feel any better health wise for having given up and to be perfectly candid the main, and probably only reason I did it was because of the exorbitant financial cost. I realize if I had done it many years ago I would probably be semi rich, but the past is the past and can't be changed so there's no point in regrets.
I'll go as far as saying that if the price of a pack was reduced significantly I would probably never have given up because despite being an addiction, I enjoyed it. I imagine that's not something the anti-smokers of the world would want to hear though.
I'm not a great role model am I... But I never cared to be either.
I GAVE UP SMOKING!
It's only been 6 months (from the 1st week of October 2016) but one day I said "no more" and that was it. I amazed myself really since in the many years I was a smoker it gave me the horrors to even think about quitting. I tried halfheartedly a few times but never really gave it a concerted effort. To say cigarettes were a crutch would be an understatement.
However, I don't feel any better health wise for having given up and to be perfectly candid the main, and probably only reason I did it was because of the exorbitant financial cost. I realize if I had done it many years ago I would probably be semi rich, but the past is the past and can't be changed so there's no point in regrets.
I'll go as far as saying that if the price of a pack was reduced significantly I would probably never have given up because despite being an addiction, I enjoyed it. I imagine that's not something the anti-smokers of the world would want to hear though.
I'm not a great role model am I... But I never cared to be either.