Success Story of Quitting Smoking

I would like to share my success story of quitting smoking after 25 years of smoking.

I lived smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, learned from the military.

I was justifying my relentless lung overexertion by telling myself that I couldn't help due to workplace stress.

It's very difficult to wake up in the morning and I feel exhausted from chronic fatigue, but I listen to a coworker's success story about quitting smoking to motivate myself.

I have started quitting smoking.

It was a three-day period that made me realize why the saying "a true commitment lasts only three days" exists.

To prevent my resolve from collapsing, I placed a pack of cigarettes in a visible spot in front of my seat and continued my battle with myself.

I endured with the determination to burn that cigarette in front of me on the day I reach three months of quitting smoking.

I have woken up a few times in my dreams seeing myself smoking and scolding myself, but gradually the intensity of my craving to smoke has decreased.

In the third week of quitting smoking, I was amazed that I didn't feel the urge to smoke even when someone nearby was smoking.

I deliberately avoided drinking gatherings for up to two months of quitting smoking, but after that, I had no problem continuing to abstain from smoking even during social drinking occasions.

I am currently cautious about the possibility of developing cravings for smoking.

If you can endure the hardest week well, you'll feel that the following weeks become easier.

There may be individual differences, but that was my experience.

From now on, I hope that my friend named Cigarette will no longer be with me.