There are a whole host of reasons why anybody should give up smoking. Some concern their personal health, some the health of others - including their own children and other family members. Where other people are concerne...read more
by z.mccann
120,000 people in the UK die each year from smoking-related illness. That's 330 people, every single day. Incentive enough to quit, it should be shouldn't it? If only we could relate the statistics, in our minds, to th...read more
There are several reasons someone should want to quit smoking and you have to make a commitment to yourself and want to make the move to a healthier lifestyle. So I guess what I'm saying is that the best reason to quit smo...read more
by Ray Waldo
Smoking is now accepted as an addiction to tobacco, not so much in its derogatory meaning implying helplessness', but as a mode by which a fellow human being nurtures his or her psyche in the contemporary stressful environ...read more
by BeiYin
When people start to smoke, mostly when they are young, then it is very much a social thing. They want to demonstrate that they are grown up, doing things the adults are doing, so they feel that it looks cool'. But then th...read more
QUIT SMOKING: The surest and easiest way. All of us are aware of the bad effects of smoking in our health. Millions of people are dying every year due to smoking-related diseases such as lung cancer, emphysema, and many...read more
by Jules Red
I am a smoker who has been addicted to cigarettes for about twenty-two years. In the past six years I have made numerous unsuccessful attempts to quit, yet each time I relapse I want to continue to try again to beat this ...read more
by Tina Lehman
There are few adult smokers that I know that have not tried at one time or another to quit smoking. Speaking with them, they tell me that if they knew it would be as difficult to quit smoking when they started, that they w...read more
A couple of weeks ago close to a month. Do to having a UTI or possibly a Kidney Stone, one of my medicines were up due to the pain in my Bladder. I was in front of my computer smoking and I fell a sleep. When I woke proba...read more
by Carin Franey
I have been with my best friend over thirty years now and it is extremely tough to say goodbye. When no one else was there for me, whether I had a tough time at work, school or home; when I couldn't talk because I was so ...read more
by Kevin Flynn
As a former smoker of two plus packs a day I understand the difficulties involved with quitting. For years I could feel myself dying slowly as my breathing became more difficult and my energy levels got lower and lower, bu...read more
She was wearing white go-go boots and a pair of blue jean shorts, and a t-shirt that read. "Bite me". She was blond, beautiful, and crazy, but she was my girl, and I adored her. Her personality was much like that of Sally ...read more
by Bill Whitney
There are so very many good reasons to quit smoking if you do and to not start if you have not acquired the nasty habit. As I look back on my life it is hard for me to understand how ans why I was so stupid and smoked fo...read more
by Joe Golden
I used to smoke cigarettes when I was 16. I smoked around a pack a day and that lasted for about 2 years. I quit smoking when I turned 18. I didn't do anything special to help me quit. No nicotine patches or special thinki...read more
by Matei Monica
Let Be .... Quit_Smoking, Kyra Mesich an pdf file that can be found on her site. Useful thoughts for those loving to make a living ..... In your life .. nobody knows I know I could be in destiny, by the side ...read more
I will start with the ONLY reason that makes you DUTY BOUND to stop immediately !, and then we shall examine some of the scores of reasons why you MUST or at the very least should stop. And this first "biggie" may not a...read more
by Bob Jobs
The people in this world who most mimic our actions sadly (and happily in other instances) are children. Let that simple fact be your motivation for quitting. They learn how to cope by watching how you cope and if smoking ...read more
On September 16th, one year will have passed since I finally succeeded at quitting smoking. Since this was my seventh attempt, it is an anniversary I am particularly proud of. Although this hurdle was very difficult ...read more
by Maz Grundy
So you want to give up smoking. You know it's bad for you. Everyone knows that, especially smokers. Every valid reason is emblazoned across cigarette packets, they are there contradicting every billboard inviting you to en...read more
I started smoking when I was 23 and most recently quit when I was 54. In that 31 year period, I quit once cold-turkey for 2 years, and after having gained 70 pounds and having been able to lose only half of that, I started...read more
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