Smokefree for 2 weeks…
I’ve been smoking for nearly half my life.
Nearly. Half. My. Life.
Steadily, over the last year I was enjoying the addiction less and less and after a previous failed attempt to quit, I wanted to make sure this time was for good.
What triggered it I suppose was going to the doctor to have a mole removed from my head. I don’t see my GP very much and he asked if I still smoked and gave me the usual lecture about how bad it was for my health, Yawn. He then recommended a new drug to remove the cravings. Holy crap it was expensive.
So, being the tight scotsman that I am, I spent $25 on Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking. What a book, and what an idiot I am for not reading it earlier. The main point that has stuck in my mind is a comparison he makes to smoking, and wearing shoes that are too small for you, just to enjoy the pleasure from taking them off…
Simple, and effective,
2 comments…
By iain on April 21st 2008mike, its interesting how different my experience is this time i’ve stopped compared to last time.
Last time i tried, I felt how you describe above; miserable, longing for a cigarette, like i was missing something. I used patches and wound myelf up like a spring, this time is sooo different.
No patches, no gum and no horrible feelings. I do get the odd pang for a smoke, but i’m just thinking of it as a wee monster dying; I’m starving him to death and watching him riggle in torment. Shoe is on the other foot so to speak…
