Memoirs: Quitting smoking 21 Articles

by Mark Tribbia

I grew up in an age when people sort of knew that smoking caused illness and was dangerous - but smoking was so damn good. Having a cigarette capped off a great meal and great (or even mediocre) sex. Smoking was the per...read more

by Kristen Logsdon

When my husband and I were married 22 years ago we were both smokers - confirmed smokers - defiant smokers - you can't take away my right to smoke smokers - smoke until it kills us smokers. We were unafraid of death and we...read more

by Lenore Pausig

"But mom, you promised." I could hear the disappointment in her voice. My daughter had been asking me nonstop for weeks to quit smoking. To quiet her I told her that for her birthday I'd try to quit. It's not that I di...read more

by Arlene Mae

Go ahead, take just one pack, we can smoke them tonight at the football game. Peer pressure got me started, although I think I had a fascination with it prior to that fateful day. I recall being a child of 9 or 10 and e...read more

by Claudia Bedwell

Quitting smoking is the best decision I have made for myself in a very long time. During the last few months, the majority of the time I feel as though I have never smoked at all; however, there have been occasions that th...read more

by Becky Bregenzer

I am on my last pack of cigarettes. My home state has a new law prohibiting smoking within fifteen feet of business entrances. This means no more smoking while sitting in fast food drive-thrus and no more lighting up on th...read more

by miss jae

I can still remember smoking for the first time. I was 12 and had waited for my grandmother to fall asleep just so I could still one of her cigarettes to try. i snuck to the bathroom and lit it up. I honestly thought th...read more

by Cheryl Burger

Well, it seems easy enough now doesn't it? However, it is quite a different story when you are faced with this seemingly impossible situation. You have taken the first test in quiting smoking, and this is just thinking abo...read more

by Vickie Hoyt

Being a Smoker/ Being a Non Smoker When I was 13 years old, I went to a pajama party. My father never let me go to pajama parties, and I guess he was wise. This time, he finally gave in and let me go. It was at that paj...read more

by Hillary Murphy

"Yes. I do understand you used to smoke a pack a day." "I know bay, seven cigarettes is not bad for one night." "Ok, I'm sorry" "yep, I'll remember next time to mind my our business" "you don't have to keep yelling." ...read more

by The Unjob

As entities blessed with the gift of recalling past memories both fond and undesirable, humans have the capacity of identifying certain feelings, thoughts and inclinations toward people and practices. To people, we assign ...read more

by Belinda Brown

I really regret starting to even smoke in the first place. I think that if I could turn back time, I would never have had that first cigarette. I now hate smoking. I do not enjoy it the way I used to. Unfortunately for me,...read more

by Cassandra Rasmussen

I hold my savior, a skinny tube filled with delicious and mellow Turkish blend Tobacco, in the V between my first and middle finger; poised to set it aflame and puff away my pain. I push away the nagging reminders in my he...read more

by Tami Beck

Excerpts from the diary of a(now)nonsmoker: July 14 Dear Diary, Finally! I did it! I quit smoking! I'm officially a nonsmoker. I never thought I'd be able to say that. After thirty-five years of smoking, and endless ...read more

by Bart Ringer

When I first started smoking it was the cool thing to do. All of the adults I knew smoked and most of my friends in the seventh grade were also starting to smoke. But at that time simply smoking wasn't good enough becaus...read more

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by Candy Jules

Quitting smoking was the best thing I ever did. I have been off of cigarettes for many years now, and I made a promise to God, my Cardiologist, and myself, that I would never go back. Some tragic things have happened i...read more

by Anika Van Boerum

I am a non-smoker. That is a phrase I thought I'd never utter. I have been a non-smoker now for about 10 years, although I didn't feel like one for the first several. Quitting smoking came about quite unexpected for me....read more

by Debbie O'Malley

I was playing around with smoking because all the people I worked with were smoking. I went with them when they smoked. One day, I asked for a cigarette. Little did I know, that I, could get addicted. It started when s...read more

by Elena Ryder

It began as most great love affairs do, with an irresistible attraction. The introduction was smooth and natural, as if we were destined, and within moments the pleasure of sharing had me feeling lightheaded and weak in t...read more

by Alixandria Knight

I didn't have to go into work until later in the morning because I am evening manager at work today. After I dropped off my daughter at the high school I went to the store, bought a pack of cigarettes and drove back to the...read more