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I Don't Smoke Cigarettes

At the age of nineteen most of my friends smoked cigarettes and I wanted to be like them. That is not the best of reasons for doing anything is it? I would go out at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning to buy some because I couldn't face the thought of not having one ready in the morning when I first woke up. It did not take me long to realise that I was throwing my money away and would face inevitable health problems as a result if I kept on smoking. I generally smoked about 20 a day, more if I had a long day. Two years after I started I quit, cold turkey. It was hard but forty years later I am not one bit sorry I gave it up. Years after quitting I would dream at night in my sleep that I was having a smoke and wake up in a cold sweat until I realised that dreams don't give you cancer, and then I began to enjoy the dreams and even look forward to them. That is when the cravings went away and the dreams stopped. That is also when I knew that I had beaten it.
I exactly started smoking cigarettes when I was 19 yo, and just because all my friends smoked. I smoked one packet of red Marlboro in a day for 17 years. One dat at 3 in the morning, I ran out of cigarettes and found myself looking for the already smoked cigarettes to smoke what was left of them. This was 19 years ago and just at that moment, I felt so helpless towards smoking and having lost my control to addiction. That was it...I took the control back and never smoked again.

Me too, for years I found myself waking up in tears because I dreamt of smoking and I was so scared because it felt so real, and I didn't want to go back where I left it.
specialED1256 · 56-60, M
Very good story keep up the great work
will999 · 70-79, M
Hi specialED1256. Thanks for the encouragement although for me the battle is won now. How bout you? Are you a smoker/EX smoker or somewhere in between thinking hmmm maybe, just maybe...
specialED1256 · 56-60, M
These are great storylines

 
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