Reasons why I wanted to quit smoking.
I had no energy.
You lose your sense of smell.
Things become less tasty as you destroy your tastebuds with the putrid but addictive grey smoke, filling your lungs with tar and infusing your bloodstream with what you really desire..
NICOTINE.
The bane of us all, the smokers.
I also started caring about the people around me, how my second hand smoke effects them, how it makes everything smell, how it makes kissing me..like licking an ashtray. For non-smokers dating smokers, I now realise it must be hard.
I wanted to stop mainly because the smoking had become habitual, I realised it had. It was no longer a pleasure, it was no longer something I did because I wanted to, it was something I did because I did it, I needed to do it like clockwork.
- I would wake up - first thing pee, then cigarette.
- Before I sleep - last thing cigarette then brush teeth.
- Stuck in traffic - light up a cigarette.
- Stressed at work - light up a cigarette.
- Hungry but no time to eat - light up a cigarette to push back the hunger.
- After a meal - first thing is to light up a cigarette.
- After sex - light up a cigarette.
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It becomes habit, smoking becomes associate with these things in your brain, you no longer really want a cigarette or enjoy it, or truly desire it. But because you did one of these things, you have to smoke, your brains tells you to smoke.
YOU’VE EATEN YOU MUST SMOKE NOW.
I didn’t want the cigarettes to be in control any more, I wanted to get the control back.
I wanted to be in control of what I did…not be controlled.
So, I decided to quit, and that my friends is what this site is all about.
Perhaps you can share your story, if you are a smoker why you want to quit, or if you’ve quit, what feeling did you have that was so strong?
Maybe you or your partner got pregnant?
Maybe someone close to you got cancer?
Maybe you just realised you didn’t need it any more?
Maybe…any let us know, it’ll be interesting.
