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42 Years Of Smoking
By Frank Hague, Fri Dec 9th
It is amazing I am not dead. Why and how I managed to quit smoking. Fifty three years ago I had a friend who was a girl (not anofficial Girlfriend).
Her mom smoked and worked away from home all day, an opportunityher daughter utilized to pinch her smokes and share them withme. Both our parents smoked as well. So off and on I became accustomed to smoking; my smoking habitgot a real boost when I joined the merchant marine service atthe age of seventeen, because sailors are allowed to purchasecigarettes tax-free outsideof territorial waters. Eventually I began smoking more and even more cigarettes and hadto get out of bed two or three times nightly for an additionalnicotine fix. Life without cigarettes was just not imaginable. Going on an airline was sheer torture because I was not allowedto smoke for two or three of hours. On a flight from Canada to Singapore I sneaked a few of smokesin the washroom in spite of the fact that airplanes were alreadyputting people in jail for smoking on board. As the years went by half of my mother's family died of lungcancer. My father's only sibling died of lung cancer. My mother died of a brain tumor - she used to be a heavy smoker. My father developed lung cancer. After he got lung cancer he visited me; he looked like apathetic skin on bones human, wearing a corduroy suit, howevereven at this point he still stood outside SMOKING IN OUR GARAGE. My brother's wife has breast cancer; my brother smokes cigars,and second-hand smoke is known to cause breast cancer. I personally began having coughing spells in the nighttime andthe vision in my left eye began to deteriorate. Me quitting smoking? Impossible : I've no willpower. Because I knew I couldn't possibly quit I never even bothered toacquire Nicorette or any other smoking-cessation product. So after a whole lifetime of smoking I knew I was going to dieof lung cancer too. However WAIT: the story isn't finished yet. On September fourth, 2002 I was browsing in a Calgary bookstorecalled Black and Noble and a book jumped out at me. It was a 385 page book called "How to Stop Smoking" by a Britishaccountant named Allan Carr. I glanced at the 1st couple of pages where the author boastedthat his book was the only way to quit smoking without anywithdrawal symptoms or even without a nocotine patch. I bought the book because I was curious to see how anyone couldwrite 385 pages about how to quit smoking. I finished the book in 9 days. On September 13, 2002 at 3 pm I took my last drag from acigarette and exhaled it through a Kleenex. That was my lastcigarette. Since then I have never even thought about smokingagain. People can smoke all around me and I'm not even slightlytempted. This book really changed my mindset. The book "How to StopSmoking" by Allan Carr is not available in American bookstores,but can be found in Canada and at internet bookstores such asAmazon. I no longer have my smoker's cough and the vision in myleft eye is back to normal. About the author:Frank Hague quit smoking at the age of 58, however, his littlebrother still smokes although his wife has breast cancer.http://www.youwillquit.com
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