American Spirit Cigarettes Made it Easier for Me to Quit Smoking

I smoked cigarettes for about 40 years, but over the past few years I have fought COPD and finally quit for 5 months. When I was cutting down, I was rolling my own using a cigarette roller, filtered tubes, and of course tobacco. My wife urged me to switch to American Spirit tobacco because it is free of chemical additives. I found it much easier to reduce my smoking and the tobacco was actually nice to smoke.

As I was reducing my smoking, I had reach a point of about 3-5 cigarettes per day, then one day when I was out of cigarettes I asked our daughter if I could get one of her cigarettes which she gladly gave me. She smokes the prepackaged name brand cigarettes and I lit this cigarette up and by the time I finished the cigarette, I wanted a cigarette more than I did before I smoked hers. I thought this was odd and questioned if it had something to do with the Chemical Additives in Cigarettes, so I told my wife I had to go get more tobacco because hers made my desire noticeably stronger than normal, so I did.

Eventually I did quit smoking and was cigarette free for about 5 months, however recently something happened that drove me to the point of needing a cigarette just to help calm my stomach and nerves. Not wanting to go out and buy everything I needed to roll my own again, I just got a pack of name brand cigarettes in the "lights" form, and smoked a cigarette. Immediately following the smoking of that cigarette, my desire for more was there. not from the old habit, it was literally an instant physiological desire to smoke another cigarette. By the time the pack was finished I was smoking 5-6 cigarettes per day and even as I was waiting for a few hours to pass before having another, the desire was a constant thorn in my side. My wife went out and purchased a new roller and tobacco so I could roll my own American Spirit cigarettes again, and for the first time in two weeks I could smoke a cigarette then cone inside and literally spend hours without a cigarette without the constant urge to have another.

I have experienced this phenomenon more than once, but now I know I will quit smoking again because the desire to have another is not that horrendous nerve racking desire, in fact I have immediately reduced my tobacco consumption again. I do not know for a fact what all the chemical additives in cigarettes are there for, I know there are anti fungals and such to protect against mold growth, but I suspect that something in those cigarettes, either intentional or as a side effect, increase the desire to smoke thus making it more difficult for the smoker to reduce their consumption and making quitting a nearly habit breaking impossibility.

If you are wanting to quit, they are more expensive, but I believe that quitting smoking will be much easier if you follow my plan on how to quit smoking:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/509689/how_i_quit_smoking_kicking_the_habit.html
and switch to the chemical free, American Spirit tobacco products. At first you will still have that nerve racking desire to smoke, but it will fade rapidly once those chemical additives leave your system. You will enjoy a healthier, chemical-free smoke and quitting will be more of an association thing than the chemical dependence.