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Blimey I never thought I would get this far so easily with stopping smoking and without murdering everybody around me. If I was a TV star I would say that I’ve had quite a journey, but the only time I’ve ever been on TV was as a 15 year old waving a hockey stick at Edward Heath when he came to open the local Conservative club so I won’t say that.
What I will say is that I’ve found giving up smoking this time round far easier than ever before. The reasons? Probably because I knew that I had to stop this time or my health would really begin to suffer from all of those years of smoking.
Also writing this blog has helped tremendously. I was determined that I would be honest on Smokers Stop and I would have hated to admit that I’d failed online where millions of people can see what I’ve written. No way was I going to do that so the blog became part of my discipline.
The last reason was as I’ve stated several times on this blog – electronic cigarettes . They weren’t available on my many previous failed stop smoking attempts but now I think that they are blooming marvelous.
Yes I still have one around and some purists would say that I haven’t completely given up, but because of e cigs I haven’t smoked or been tempted to smoke tobacco products packed with killer chemicals for 4 months now.
A lot of days I don’t touch my electric cigarette but it’s there to stop me from being tempted to go back to health destroying tobacco products. I’m happy with that and so is everybody around me – except perhaps for my cat! I got one of those new mini e cigarettes a couple of months back and although it’s not as good as my original e cig it does the trick.
Unfortunately Sparky the cat thought it was a plaything. The battery charger plugs into my lap top and she thinks this new dangly thing is a toy. I got up one morning and the glowy end bit had disappeared and I can only assume that she knocked it off while playing. My mini e cig still works but I’m getting an awful lot of rude comments about it!
My total savings now taking into account the cast of patches and e-cigs is now at least £350. I’ve already used the savings to put towards a new Sony Viao laptop, it looks a lot better than a stack of 150+ cigarette packets that I would have gone through doesn’t it?
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