Great American Smokeout – November 19, 2009 – Too late, I Quit Smoking Already

Grandma — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:52:46 +0000

The Great American Smokeout was held yesterday, November 19, 2009, wherein smokers join together to quit smoking or using tobacco products of any kind at least for the one day. Funny thing is, I already quit smoking and didn’t even know about the “smokeout” until this morning when I heard about it online.

I’ve lost track of how many times I have tried to quit smoking, but nothing seemed to stick. The various stop smoking aids like Chantix pills scare the beejeebers out of me, and the nicotine patch was never something I wanted to try either. Why? Because trying to quit smoking with the “help” of products that have nicotine in them doesn’t make any sense to me. Nicotine addiction is what keeps smokers smoking, so it makes no sense to me to attempt to quit smoking and rid myself of nicodine addiction by continuing to take nicotine into my body.

What surprised me most when I finally did quit smoking was that it was not hard to quit smoking at all. Really, it wasn’t hard at all. Quitting smoking was easy, for me. No patches, no nicotine gum, no so-called quit smoking aids were used to help me quit. All it took for me to stop smoking once and for all was reading a book. Yeah, I know, how in the heck can reading a book help someone quit smoking?

I was nervous and scared about the reported side effects smokers talk about experiencing when they finally put out that last cigarette. The withdrawal symptoms are scary enough to keep a smoker smoking for life, just to avoid having to deal with the “pangs” and stress about quitting. I didn’t experience any withdrawal symptoms at all. None. Zip, zero, nada. No feelings of “I gotta have a cigarette right now or I’m going to kill someone”. Nope.

“Weaning” myself off of nicotine with stop smoking aids sounds more like torture to me. Cutting back on the number of cigarettes smoked each day didn’t cause me to stop smoking either, although it did help reduce the expense of buying cigarettes to some degree. Quitting smoking “cold turkey” as they say really scared me. Cold turkey methods sound like torture too, as if a smoker trying to quit is going to experience so many crazy symptoms as they try to quit, that family and friends would be wise to stay far, far away…until the homocidal tendencies diminish or disappear.

All it took for me to quit smoking was to read Allen Carr’s book called The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Yes, really. Funny thing about the book was Allen strongly recommends in the book that smoker’s continue smoking until they have finished reading the book. I just couldn’t manage that. Halfway through the book, I put out my last cigarette and I know for a certainty that I will never again light up another cigarette for as long as I live. No withdrawal symptoms, no crazy mood swings, no “pangs” for a cigarette. Nothing at all.

Allen Carr explains in the book the easy way method to quit smoking, and considering the fact that Carr smoked no less than 100 cigarettes a day (WOW!!!) and his method worked for him without any negative side effects or withdrawal symptoms etc. Allen Carr smoked 5 packs a day! If he could quit smoking “just like that” after being such a heavy, chain-smoking chimney, I knew I could quit my habit of smoking less than a pack a day. Quitting smoking was easy, and I’m very proud of me for doing it. Next on my To-Do list is continuing my efforts to get my weight back to where it was a few years ago, and I’m headed in the right direction. Yeah me!

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Great American Smokeout – November 19, 2009 – Too late, I Quit Smoking Already