Quitting Smoking

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I started smoking at 16 till I was 29.

 

It was one of those things I always wanted to quit but

kind of never the right time, wait till this party or

that event or that month might be stressful. In other

words I didnt truly want to quit.

 

Then I was on holiday and I got a phone call that my

father has been hospitalised. He had severe

bronchitis. He was 64 at the time. He had been

smoking since he was 16. The doctors said either you

stop now and live well into your 90s or you will be

dead in a couple of years. My mother told him if he

didnt stop she would leave as she wasnt going to watch

him kill himself. He stopped and we were all so proud

of him and encouraged him. Then a few months later he

went away for a week with my mother and he drove her

mad, it turned out he hadnt stopped smoking he had

been smoking secretly and he was dreadful towards my

mother saying vile things that only a drug addict

would say because after all that is what he was. When

they returned my mother was a mess, she didnt know

what to do as she said she couldnt hurt a dog and

leave them in the street how could she do that to my

father.

 

I have always been the one who sorts the family feuds

and problems out and the one who goes and does the

dirty work of telling people things straight. I never

wanted that job it just happened that way.

 

I couldnt say a word, because I was a smoker. So that

night I threw my cigarrettes away. I couldnt have a

go at my father and tell him what I thought of him

because I would have been a hypocrite.

 

It was hard really hard, but sheer anger got me

through it. I have to say I put on weight because I

took up sucking lollypops instead!

 

But if you really want to do this, stick at it. It is

worth it in the end. Its true what they say, food

tastes so much better and life is wonderful.

 

Big hugs

 

Lizzie

 

 

 

 

 

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