How And Why To Quit Smoking

Long ago I had a friend and she was a girl.(not anheavy smoker.
official Girlfriend).My dad got lung cancer.
Her mom smoked and worked during the day soAfter he got lung cancer he visited me; he was a
daughter used to pinch her smokes and shared thempathetic skin over bones man now, wearing a
with me. Both my parents smoked as well.corduroy suit, BUT STILL SMOKING IN MY GARAGE.
So off and on I got used to smoking; my smokingMy brother's wife has breast cancer; my brother still
got a real boost when I became a sailor at the agesmokes cigars.
of 17, because you could buy cigarettes tax-freeI started having coughing spells at night and the
when you were outside territorial waters.vision in my left eye was deteriorating.
Over time I started smoking more and moreMe quitting smoking? Impossible- I have no willpower.
cigarettes and had to get up a couple of times aBecause I knew I could not quit I never even
night to have another nicotine fix.bothered to try.
Life without cigarettes was just not imaginable.So after a whole lifetime of smoking I was going to
Going on an airline trip was sheer torture because Idie of lung cancer too.
could not smoke for a couple of hours.However, I managed to quit by using self-hypnosis.
We flew to Singapore once and I had a couple ofOn September 13, 2002 at 3 PM I took my last drag
smokes in the washroom in spite of the fact thatand exhaled it through a Kleenex.
airplanes were already putting people in jail forThat was my last cigarette. I have never even
smoking.thought about smoking. People can smoke around me
Over the years half of my mom's family died of lungand I don't give it a thought.
cancer.I no longer cough at night and the vision in my left
My dad's only sibling died of lung cancer.eye is fine now.
My mom died of a brain tumor-she used to be a