This isn’t a topic I really
wanted to address on my blog because I’m aware that it taints the way a lot of
my readers might view me. I’ve not been smoking for a very long time, but I
fall quite heavily into habits (nail biting, lip chewing etc) and the past few
months allowed smoking to get really under my skin. I decided a few weeks ago
that I wanted to quit, and I thought I’d write a list of reasons why that can
help remind me what I want to achieve and remind me what a good thing it is
that I’m doing! Hopefully, if any of you are in the same boat, this post can
help you too.
Money
First things first, smoking is
one of the most expensive habits. A pack costs me about £7.50, and when I think
about the amount I’ve spent over the course of the last few months I cringe! If
I added that up, I could be walking around in a lovely big faux fur coat or
with a pretty handbag instead, something much more meaningful and useful. I’ve
been putting the money I would have been spending on cigarettes into a jar on
my dresser, and hopefully in a few months there’ll be a good chunk of money to
help me feel rewarded!
It’s disgusting and not the person I want to be
I look at ashtrays and just
think they’re foul, but very rarely make the connection that I’m inhaling this
horrible, stinking smoke and it’s clogging me up from the inside out. I want to
be a positive, healthy, happy role-model type person and smoking just doesn’t
fit in with that.
Health and Hygiene
I started to suffer with
trouble breathing when I slept and had a cold that just wouldn’t go away
because I didn’t think smoking was affecting it, but it was. That’s when I
realised I had to give it up, because I’m just too delicate and my health and
ability to sleep is much more important to me than standing out in the freezing
cold rain to have a cigarette. On top of this, my fingernails get dirty, my
teeth never really felt clean and it made my breath smell awful. It was only a
matter of time until my skin started to clog up with smoke and dirt and my
pores would look horrendous and spots would begin to cause trouble.
Winter is the best time to quit!
Who really wants to go and
stand outside freezing and getting rained on to have a cigarette? It’s
nonsense. When all of my work friends are going outside one by one to get
rained on and wind blasted, I’ll be smugly sitting by the fire inside instead.
Winter makes it easier to quit because it’s much more difficult to find the
motivation to go outside into the tundra.
What are your top quitting
smoking tips?
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