The purpose of my blog is to help me end my addiction to nicotine. Monday, March 22nd, was the first day in a long time that I have gone without a cigarette. My health is one of the biggest reasons alongside many others for me to end this terrible addiction. Over 400,000 Americans die pre-maturely from smoking cigarettes. This is more people in ONE year than the American death tolls from all of the World Wars combined. I don't want to end up being another "statistic".
I hated the feeling of not being able to 'survive' without a cigarette. I realized that I was addicted to nicotine, when my car was snowed in, and I started to walk to 7-11 at midnight to go get my "fix". Now is the time, not tomorrow, or a year from now, or 5 years from now to quit. There's no advantages of being a smoker, I'm proud to say that I'm done with cigarettes and I don't plan on looking back.
Here's a few interesting facts from TheTruth.com
43.9% of young adults who are college age, but do not attend college, smoke.
25.7% of college students smoke.
15% of college students smoke daily.
Each year only 4.7% of smokers succeed in quitting.
Each year 40% of smokers quit for at least a day.
About 70% of smokers say they want to quit.
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I'm with you 110% Todd. Many of us have been where you are now. It helps to think of yourself now, today, as a non-smoker. It will come.
ReplyDeleteI am so proud of you -- keep up the great work!
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