There's nothing good about smoking. There's no upside. I've smoked since my teens. I am an expert. I was addicted until Le Journaliste and I stepped on the plane at 6am this morning. We stepped off at 10am in stansted. I am excited about tomorrow: about not smoking tomorrow. If you see me trying to snort kerbside ashtrays at Stratford Station then I've lapsed just ignore me and walk on.
Lemn Sissay
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Lemn,
Why ignore you if you lapse? Would it not be nice to be given support? (Either for quitting again, or with the ashtrays, as you wish…)
I wish you all the best in this endeavour!
Yuri
Hi Lemn,
I too smoked from when I was teenager, up until my mid thirties, I'd quit a couple of times but began again during a very stressful time, but the comfort it brought was short lived and it was once gain a habit I wanted to lose!
Well it lost me, when one winter's evening I went on a bit of a bender, caught cold queing outside a club, drank too much, smoked too much and spent the next ten days subject to bouts of uncontrollable coughing, needless to say smoking was out! When the cough was gone and I could breate normally again I realized I had the opportunity I needed to be free of tobacco, and for the next three months I kept on resisitng the urge to smoke… feeling bereft until the longing subsided physically and mentally, leaving me….Like a haunting that was over.
It ain't easy but that's half the pleasure of winning through, and I find I'm less rattled as a non smoker, and I'm not proud or down on those that do smoke. It's worth remembering though that tobacco is a luxury and was originally consumed as such, especially for ceremonial purposes, everday consumption and ultimately addiciton as with tea and coffee came about as a result of colinisation.