Quit Smoking Timeline

Quit Smoking Timeline

Back in school, the news about our group spread like wildfire. We were the kids from the gang that dared to break the rules. We were famous! Unbelievable, we were famous and admired by our colleagues. Some of them joined our club, others were afraid but the majority thought what we did was cool. The feeling of being famous, belonging to the group and doing the forbidden things gave me such a kick that I kept on escaping and smoking with the other guys.

Every Friday afternoon a big school bus brought us back home. It was a one and a half hour drive from school to my parent’s house. Marc was also on my bus, as he lived a few villages further on. The bus had hardly left the grounds of school and we started smoking. Another stimulating factor was that there were girls on our bus. They came from a neighboring boarding school for girls who had an agreement with our school concerning traveling from and to school on Sundays and Fridays.

Smoking and doing other forbidden things was the right thing to do in order to impress the girls. The girls didn’t say so but we just knew, we could read their minds! We were the cowboys of their dreams! I’m not familiar with your story but I would really like to know how nicotine trapped you. You can always send me your story by mail or email. No matter what the details of your story are, chances are that you can find some similarities with my story.

Maybe you started smoking at quite a young age because you wanted to belong to a group, to be with the big boys in your school. Maybe you did it because you wanted to impress the girls. Maybe you started smoking because you had a big brother or sister that smoked and you thought it looked cool to have a cigarette in your mouth. Maybe you started to impress your boyfriend.

On the other hand, you started because you wanted to keep your stress or your weight under control. Others started smoking because their best friends convinced them. Advertisements on television or sports events depictured our heroes with cigarettes in their mouths. Movies showed our favorite actors or actresses relaxing with a delicious cigarette. These are some of the many things that might have pushed you to smoke that very first cigarette.

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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Quit Smoking Timeline

How To Quit Smoking Naturally

How To Quit Smoking Naturally

Anyway, at eleven years old, I had another nicotine stick in my mouth and I was about to experience the “great sensation” and taste of it. Well, it was even worse than that cigar I smoked when I was five! After the first puff, I immediately started coughing and it seemed that my whole head started to spin around. From time to time, I felt as if I was going to faint. I was dizzy and I saw my colleagues floating and turning around as I collapsed on the sand under the bushes.

Some of the guys started to laugh at me, “Aha, you can’t stand the smoke, whoa, you pussy.” “You’re not a real guy.” “You’re so soft.” I didn’t want to admit I was failing and tried to show them the real me by taking another large puff. The result wasn’t any better and the taste was absolutely awful. It felt as though the smoke was slowly penetrating my throat, my lungs and stomach. I felt sick. My legs and arms felt heavy, my knees couldn’t keep my body up, and so I stayed lying on the ground, just turning my head. My eyes were wide open so I could see what was happening. This was the only sure thing that I experienced; I could still see what was going on around me. It was small consolation to notice that I wasn’t the only person suffering from this experience.

As we were in a group of “grown-up” kids, nobody wanted to show their weakness, just the contrary. Besides, everybody wanted to belong to the group, be one of those big guys who dared to escape to the woods and smoke without permission.

We all survived our first nicotine experience, as well as our trip back to the schoolyard. Such a trip was not without danger. The school kept us under close surveillance and if the instructors had caught us, it would have cost us our school careers. Not to mention how our parents would have reacted once they found out about it.

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

 This article is about: How To Quit Smoking Naturally

How To Quit Smoking Naturally