C’mon, you know you really should stop smoking. It’s becoming less and less acceptable these days, and the cost to your health and quality of life is incredibly high.
I used to smoke, and at different times in my life I used to smoke a lot. As an exsmoker, I’m well aware of how much healthier I am now and of how much more money I have than I did when I was shelling out seven quid and over for a pack of smokes.
I’m also clued in to how smelly smokers are and how ridiculous they look sucking their lives (and health and money) away due to addiction to a cancer stick. Among the many nice things about not smoking anymore is that I’ve regained my sense of smell. The downside to that is I realise how stinky some people are. Also, when I see people standing around having a fag rarely do they appear glamourous or carefree to me. Actually, they come across as looking weak and rather desperate. It’s embarrassing to think about how much I must have stunk when I smoked and how pathetic I probably looked much of the time when I was a smoker.
So seriously, what are you waiting for? It’s time to quit smoking. There are a gazillion ways to quit: gum, the patch, hypnosis to name but a few. There’s even an initiative to help people quit that’s been set up by European Commission. The initiative is called ExSmokers, and if you have a quick look at the site you’ll see they have new free app called ICOACH. It’s a free digital health coaching platform available in 23 official EU languages that’s designed to assist those smokers who are unwilling to quit and who run a high risk of relapse. So far, ICOACH results have been impressive with more than a third of the people starting the programme going on to quit smoking.
However you choose to quit and whatever aids you take advantage of the main thing is to commit to quitting and to do it soon. Feel better, look better, smell better and keep your money for better things.
