This story of mine goes back 6 years, when after smoking ordinary packet cigarettes from 1- 2 packets a day (And sometimes more) for the previous 34 years, I decided to give them up and swap to hand rolling my own.
This was rightly or wrongly based on the premise that by getting rid of all the chemicals that were in an ordinary cigarette, then my body would be ok, as I was "told" that nicotine in itself does not kill you, it is all the other crap (Sorry chemicals) that they put in man made cigarettes that does the main damage.
There was none of this in a hand rolled cigarette so I was ok wasn't I!
My rationale did not take into account the amount of actual smoke that was still going into my lungs, and also coking up my whole respiratory system, but I solved that one by being an active twice weekly squash player, so my cardio-vascular would be protected and I would be fit.
What a plonker.
The challenge I had, was that I had tried to give up a couple of times before, and had tried the nicotine patches and the chewing gum when they came out, but ended up having a ciggy while still wearing the patch chewing the gum, so gave up on that idea as they did not work.
They obviously do, but not for me.
The thought of actually using willpower to quit smoking, frightened the life out of me, more so than smoking itself; how many people can relate to that one.
I did try using willpower but failed miserably, like all the other attempts to try and give up, that I had unsuccessfully tried.
Now the word "try" here is very important, because if you "try" to do something you won't do it; if you tried to pick up that pen from your desk, and you picked it up, you did not try, you did it; if you had tried to pick it up, you would not have picked it up at all.
So my attempts to try and quit smoking were a miserable failure, so I gave up trying and carried on smoking my roll ups.
Fast forward to early March 2008, I started to cough up blood which frightened me somewhat, and I ended up in hospital getting thoroughly checked out.
They confirmed that I was ok and the x-ray proved all was clear, miraculously my lungs were also clear, but that it was probably one of my gums that had become weak and started to bleed. (A subsequent visit to my dental hygienist confirmed this, and she also said it was due to smoking)
This episode really scared me, and I realized that the time to Do, and not to Try, was upon me.
During the past year or so on the internet, I had purchased a set of self hypnosis cd's to listen to, and one of them was designed to Help you to Stop Smoking.
I decided to listen to it that evening (March 31st 2008) and from the following day I have not touched or smoked a cigarette.
I cannot now believe that I smoked for all those years, and I can honestly say that I have had little to no cravings or withdrawal symptoms.
The one or two times over the past five months that I thought I would like a cigarette, a little voice inside my head said "Why would you want to do that, you don't smoke" and the thought passes.
Now all the benefits I was told about quitting smoking are coming to fruition, like the fact;
I don't stink of smoke any more.
The colour and tone of my skin has improved my appearance, and friends say I look ten years younger.
No more coughing and wheezing at all.
An important health benefit being that the risk of a heart attack is halved compared to that of being a smoker.
The financial saving is considerable to say the least
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