There are plenty of smokers, just like you, who have a desire to quit this bad habit. When it comes time that you decide to give up smoking, there’s always that element of timing. You’re going on vacation next week. You’re going back to school to train for a new career. You’ve invited guests for the weekend. You’re too stressed out at your job. You know the drill. It seems that there’s always some reason that makes this a bad time to try to give up smoking. While you might genuinely want to quit smoking, it’s far easier to rationalize that ‘this just isn’t the time’ and put the whole idea on the back burner. The usual result? You put it off for a ‘better time’. Here we’ve got a novel idea that turns that rationalization on its head and works!

I began smoking as a teenager, dabbling with cigarettes, cloves and “bedes” – Indian cigarettes – near the end of my high school years. As a freshman in college I didn’t smoke at all, but then at some point between my freshman and sophomore years, I became a smoker. And I needed a quit smoking aid many, many times over before I could officially become a former smoker.

My personal quit smoking aid of choice was the best one: Fear. Fear of cancer, heart disease, and imminent death. My family – both sides of my family – have medical histories littered with the above. My maternal grandfather, for example, smoked for sixty-five years. A large, jovial and vivacious man, he lived into his early 80s. But the last six months of his life were spent withering away in the hospital as lung cancer slowly and surely killed him. There is no better quit smoking aid than that for anyone.


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