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Dying for a Cigarette

The title of this post Dying for a Cigarette can be put in two different forms.  It can be used as a statement or a question. 

Dying for a Cigarette.

I have used the statement “I am dying for a cigarette” hundreds of times during the years that I fed my nicotine addiction.  And at the time that I made those statements I believed that if I didn’t get a smoke or a nicotine fix I actually would expire by some terrible unknown, unexplainable, mind blowing phenomenon.  Or, at the least, I would do some unlawful act, such as killing someone, that it would end my life and existence as I knew it at that time.

Little did I know that the statement “Dying for a Cigarette” would have such a traumatic and dramatic effect on me and my life?

Eventually after over twenty years of smoking and a number of attempts to quit smoking I was finally successful.  In 1980 I quit smoking “cold turkey”.  This time the quit wasn’t as hard as I had made all of the former attempts to quit.  Notice I use the term “I made” because that is the way it was.  In my earlier attempts to quit I was convinced that it would be hard and it was because I believed it would be.  In my final and last attempt I told myself that I could do this no matter what.  I decided that I would quit for good this time because I could.  And I did.

Dying for a Cigarette?

Three years after I quit smoking I was diagnosed with smoking induced lung cancer and had to have my left lung removed.  I was very fortunate because they got all of the cancer with the entire lung.  I did not have to have chemotherapy or radiation treatments.  I almost lost my life and fulfilled the statement “Dying for a Cigarette”. 

Tobacco and lung cancer have had a profound effect on my life.  Use of tobacco caused me to have lung cancer.  But I have not let either, tobacco or lung cancer, completely define my life.  And you don’t have to either.

Yesterday, March 28, 2010, I celebrated my 70th birthday.  Thirty years after I quit smoking I am still doing well.  There is life after tobacco use and I am living proof that quitting smoking can make a difference in one’s life and well being.

If you think that you can quit smoking take my word for it you can if you believe that you can.

I tell my story about my nicotine addiction and what I went through to beat it at http://www.quitterscanbewinners.com/

You can get my free ebook on How to stop smoking forever or Simply be Tobacco Free by clicking here http://www.simply-be-tobacco-free.com/

Thanks for visiting and good luck.

      

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