This Sunday was marked my third anniversary of quitting smoking.Before I actually quit for good, I made countless attempts, all of which crashed and burned.
I feel that the reason for my failure was mainly because in my previous attempts, I quit "except for when I'm drinking," which (as we all know) is bullshit. Each time I used that as a loophole, it quickly turned into "oh, just this one cigarette, then never again..."
I never was smoking more than one pack per week, but at around $7/pack (that was about the price when I quit), that's $365 over the course of a full year! If you were to cost that over 10 years, that's easily over $5,000 (when you factor in the inevitable price increases).
This was one of the hardest things that I did, but it was well worth it. As I learned from Warren Rustand at an event I attended about a month before I quit, "It only takes 21 days to change a habit," and I found that those words could not be truer.
About a month after smoking, I did notice I had less and less cravings for them (not that I ever really liked the taste of them to begin with).
Three years into quitting smoking, I have definitely noticed a few things which serve to reinforce my decision to quit:
- I get sick to my stomach every time I even smell cigarette smoke.
- I have been breathing better. and can run farther than before.
- I have been coughing less... much less.
