I haven't had a smoke for seven years now.
I used to smoke 30 a day. I decided to go cold turkey. I had had enough of smoking. I made a plan to stop at 4pm on a Friday and told myself I could do this.
It's powerful, those four words: I can do this.
The first couple of days were bad, I just tried to sleep through it. The quit guide helped a lot those first couple of days. After a few months the habit of it left me. And the coughing during my sleep stopped. My sense of smell came back. And I saved all the money up that I spent on smoking.
The first thing I bought was a new fridge, then a camper trailer that my family went camping in. Then, after a year, we sold that and bought an old school bus and over the next three years spent my smoking money fitting it out.
We saved the money a further year then headed off around Australia in the bus with my wife and three girls. When I stopped smoking it was costing me $4,250 a year, now it would cost me over $8,000! That's a lot of cash. Wow. You can do it too. It's only when we tell ourselves "I can't stop" we don't. But if you start saying "I CAN DO THIS", you will. All the best.
