In this article, I explain why I decided to give up smoking. I think it's important to have a lot of good reasons for why you want to stop smoking. This will help you get through the many cravings you will definitely have. I hope that this article will serve as a source of motivation and help other people quit smoking for good.
When governments around the world try to get people to stop smoking, they always talk about how bad it is for their health. It could be by showing a man with cancer who is about to die. Even though I knew that smoking was bad for my health, I did it anyway. I did this because I didn't think these health problems would really start to bother me for about 30 years. I used to tell myself that there's a good chance I won't be alive in thirty years, so I should enjoy my life now. I would also try to convince myself that if I do live for another thirty years, there is a good chance that cancer will have been cured by then. When I decided to stop smoking, health was one of the reasons, but it was by no means the main reason.
Without a doubt, money was the main reason. In the UK, the price of a pack of twenty cigarettes has gone through the roof in the last few years. Not because I can't afford to buy them anymore, but because I'd rather spend the money on other things, like clothes or a vacation. I figured out that I save more than £1,000 a year by not smoking. This is a lot of money to me, and it's what I thought about every time the demons in my head tried to get me to smoke just one more cigarette.
There were other reasons I wanted to quit smoking, of course. Some of these things are how bad they make your clothes and house smell, how they affect your teeth, the fact that most women don't like it when men smoke, and how much they can make you depend on them. For example, I'm a little bit stressed, so I need a cigarette. I am drinking coffee, therefore I must smoke a cigarette.
Quitting smoking was very, very hard, but it was well worth all the trouble.
