How to Pack Up Smoking
5,563 days and counting
By CJ Stone
5,563 days and counting
A friend of mine made an announcement on Facebook recently. She said that she was intending to pack up smoking. She asked for advice. I thought about it for a while, then realised there was far too much to fit into a Facebook post. So this is my answer now.
I smoked for more than 35 years. I started when I was 17. I packed up on Thursday 24th March, 2005, at 2.30 am. That’s 5,563 days ago at the time of writing, or 15 years and 3 months approximately. It was one of the best things I ever did.
I used the Allen Carr method: that is I read his book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.
I recommend it. Allen Carr was a 60 a day chain smoker till he had hypnosis. After that he never smoked again. I…
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