How to Quit Smoking Forever

Quitting smoking seems to be the only goal smokers should have. I smoked for a various amount of years, and finally I have quit. I didn't do it by just going cold turkey. I used the aided method of the Easyway to quit smoking. The Easyway is a book written by the late Allen Carr. Through his system many people have quit their old, disgusting habits in the last 20 years.

When I first started smoking, I wasn't old enough to buy them yet. I was only 12 years old. I was tall enough to look at least 18, but I wasn't. In fact, I was raised around a family of smokers. My first months and years of life were spent in homes surrounded by parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles that all smoked. Thankfully, some of the family members gave it up in their own. Unfortunately, my grandmother didn't make it. She died at the age of 67 from lung cancer. At her height of nicotine addiction she smoked over 3 packs a day and weighted over 500 pounds.

I quit several times during my adolescent years and early twenties. The first time my aunt had moved me from my father's house to her and her husband's home. She made me stop so I could focus on school and join the basketball team at school. I had children and would stop when pregnant, only to start up again within the next few months. I counted over a dozen times that I had stopped smoking on my own and then resumed again. I had funny habits of wanting to quit. Although I would try to stop I couldn't. I had joined gyms only to walk after a two or three hour work out to light up and continue the chain smoking routine all night.

What bothered me about smoking weren't just the bad effects on my health. The smell annoyed me. I learned not to cough, but to use short debated breaths. I stayed angry all the time. More importantly I felt lazier and lazier each day I smoked. I would try to quit every day. I had special dates that were going to the right one each time I felt guilty about the habit. New Year's Eve was going to do it. Then suddenly Easter, my son's birthday, and so on it never stopped.

The cost was insanely out of control. When I started smoking I remember the price being under two dollars. In the last few years, legislation has raised taxes and pricing from a few dollars up to nearly seven or more dollars for one pack. I was a pack a day smoker. I counted that in a month I would spend close to two hundred dollars just to smoke when ever I wanted to.

Suddenly, something changed in me. I had begun reading this book: The Easyway to Quit Smoking. I knew I wanted to stop, but the book instructs you that you not stop until the book has been read in full. The nagging insinuation the author makes only confirmed my annoyed state of self that I had to give it up. One strong mention Allen gives is that the habit is nothing more than a little monster wanting to be fed. I used that thought to hang on to my fears and let go of smoking. While it has only been a few weeks I feel great. I feel like I can be better role model for my son.

I recommend reading this book to anyone who does smoke, or does not smoke but known a smoker that should quit. Allen Carr's message to share his dream to help others quit smoking is why he began centers internationally aimed to help smokers stop. While he is no longer alive his message still helps people like me. I hope I can also help anyone out there who wants to stop. I still have some family members who smoke and I wish they could stop before cancer kills them.