Started smoking when I was 13, and smoked for 27 years. Tried to quit twice during those years, first time I lasted about a week, second time about 2 years. But I could not give up smoking while having a drink, and I was partying every other weekend at that time so I won't even call it I quit smoking. I bought a pack of sigarettes before going to a party, and if there was any sigarettes left after the weekend offcourse I smoked them too.
Before I knew it I was back at daily smoking again.
In 2007 I was sitting at the doctors waiting room while my wife was seeing the doc. Found me a book about how to quit smoking, and started to look through the chapters.. I don't remember the books author or title, but I remember reading a few lines about how the sigarette takes control over peoples lives. And how to break that circle. "Do you really want the sigarette to control you? It is your life, you are in control!"
So by the time my wife came out from the doctors office I had officially quit smoking after only reading a few lines in a book! And I was very determent this time! This is about 6 years ago now, and I still not had a sigarette since.
My wife smoked then, she smoked before I met her, and she still smokes. But she has to take control herself, her smoking around me does not bother me. Other than I wish for her own sake she would make the step to take that control too, but she has to set her own mind up for it. And she says herself that the sigarettes are in control of her, she is not able to take that control back..
But I hope she will some day.
