Giving Up Smoking

Trisha has done a fantastic job so far in giving up the cigarettes. She has so far managed a whole month and I am seriously impressed with her efforts.

I am Gary Vine (co: owner of SmokersStop.co.uk), aged 32 years old and it’s my turn to attempt to ditch what is probably the world’s most addictive drug.

I have been smoking since I was 14 years old and by the time I was 16 I was on 20 a day and have been for 16 years. Based on the current price of £5.00 a packet and during the past 16 years that would have cost me around £29,120.00 which now thinking about it hasn’t done me any good whatsoever, but instead damaged my health during this 16 years of spending madness on something that is slowly killing me.

My official give up date is Monday 22^nd June 2009 and honestly I am absolutely petrified at waking up on that Monday morning and breaking my habit of not lighting up which is something I have done for my entire adult life.

I am also dreading not having a smoke break at work, standing outside a nightclub puffing away, smoking in my car and even lighting up after a meal.

You may think I sound pathetic in my responses so far in attempting to give these cigarettes up for good. But, one thing a non smoker would not understand is that I will need to change my entire lifestyle and at the same time have to change my entire routine which is something I’ve been used to for the past 16 years.

My biggest incentive to give up is the amount of money I would save. I worked it out to be around £1,820.00 a year.

This is my time to start saying “NO” to the cigarette and “YES” to the savings and better health.

This will definitely be no easy challenge for me, so I want you to read my progress on this blog and show your support and if you are a smoker and want to join myself and Trish in giving up then we would love to hear from you with the intention where we can help each other in achieving our ultimate goal.

I will publish a update on how my first day went on Tuesday 17^th June.