After 42 Years You Can Quit

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

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