Giving Up Smoking

What I mean by that title is that I only have one month to go before my first no smoking year in over 40 years is up. I can’t believe that I have managed for so long and for most of the time fairly easily.

I know that I can thank electronic cigarettes for the ease and for the excellent end result. If somebody had told me that a plastic lookalike could do what other methods have failed to do for me a few years ago I would have thought they were pulling my leg or on another planet. I think ecigs are the best invention since ring pull cans but some governments don’t.

I guess that it depends upon the way that you look at it. Obviously there are always concerns about testing any products that are taken into your body, but we know that tobacco is very harmful to your health and that various governments who get high taxes from tobacco reckon to be campaigning and taking measures to stop smoking.

In my ideal world those governments would do more to stop smoking if they dropped the bans on electric cigarettes, researched them, helped promote them as a stop smoking aid and monitered the manufacture of them. I believe that this idea would do far more to stop people from smoking than anything that they are doing now.

Anyway that’s my ideal world. In my less than ideal world I’m still waking up with a dry mouth and sometimes a sore throat, the crap still coming up out of my lungs. A friend who stopped told me it took her about 18 months for that to stop happening, I never thought it would take that long.

That’s it really for this month, except for some fun. I read about a free way of making videos on Youtube and following is the end result. Please feel free to add the video to your sites!!!

Cool isn’t it? That was really easy and only took a few minutes.

My total savings now taking into account the cost of patches and e-cigs is now at least £1000. I’ve already used the savings to put towards a new Sony Viao laptop, it looks a lot better than a stack of cigarette packets that I would have gone through doesn’t it? I haven’t decided what I’m going to treat myself next with saved cigarette money. I’ve been thinking about getting a guitar and learning how to play it, or maybe even put it towards a holiday.

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