Giving Up Smoking

Suppose it started back in 1991 when I was just 14 years old. Although I attained some good GCSE’s whilst at school, I have to admit that I was not all that interested in the school life and I always prefer to do my own thing and I was stubbon enough not to let other people influence me with whatever I decided to do. if I wanted to do something, I just did it regardless what other people’s opinions were.

During my teenage years, smoking was a pretty big thing – everyone was doing it, nipping out during school lunches and breaks for a quick puff, sharing a cigarette between about 5 of us. Before I left school my smoking habbit started to become a addition and I heavily depended on a cigarette during certain partsof the day. I smoked around 10 a day then I regularly lit up without fail the same time each day.

Smoking did have a lot of downfalls during my teenage years, especially whilst at school as I tended to skive off a lot of lessons which always got me in trouble and equally I was also the subject to a bollicking for getting caught having a sly cigarette and even turning upto lessons late due to my habbit.

It didn’t help that I was surrounded by smokers as my parents smoke and as they were both involved in the pub trade where smoking was legal in pubs I could never get away from it as you could see and smell the smoke circulating around the pub. Later on my sister also joined in and is now a heavy smoker.

I was never one of these kids who wanted to show off cause I had a cig flashing through my lips. At first I really enjoyed the buzz in relaxing with a cigarette and later this turned into a deadly addiction.

I have worked hard enough to make a success of my life, but there is one thing I always regret and that was lighting up my first cigarette. I’ve always completely disagreed with drugs and I would never even contemplate popping a pill (as they say) or smoking a joint, but I decided to smoke which is something I never understood why i couldn’t say No.

I’ve been a heavy smoker for over 10 years and I have a lot of personal goals to achieve within myself and my businesses and I won’t be able to achieve these unless I give up smoking so I really need to determine myself to say no to cigarettes as I would do to drugs.

It’s going to be a long and worthwhile battle.

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