Many people who suffer from this bad habit want to quit smoking, but only a few really decide on it. I want to say that I just relate to these units. Now I will tell you how my husband and I managed to do this.
I started smoking a long time ago
My history of a smoker began a long time ago - in 2003, when I first entered the university. Many of the same age group, who were with me in the same group, smoked, I began to repeat after them and did not even notice how I began to get involved in this process, wanting to smoke one cigarette after another. Having caught myself several times thinking that I couldn’t calmly sit out the first couple without smoking a cigarette, I realized that she was addicted, but it was too late.
A couple of years ago, I thought about quitting smoking.
Relatively recently, I seriously began to think about how to quit smoking. Honestly, before this question did not arise so seriously, but during the next scheduled physical examination, the therapist looked at me and asked me if I have bad habits. When I replied that I was smoking, told about the age and extent of my hobby, the doctor advised me to quit it and said that if you continue in the same vein, very serious problems with pressure will begin very soon.
Of course, I was scared for my own health and began to think out an effective plan for abandoning the habit, which over the past 15 years has become a serious addiction. In addition, in our family there came a period when money began to run out.
I began to persuade my husband to quit smoking together
I forgot to say that not only I smoked in the family, but also my husband. When the money began to run out, I invited him to quit a bad habit. He, being a smoker with considerable experience, was rather skeptical of my idea, but agreed to its implementation immediately after I gave him an example of a simple calculation, the result of which indicated that we spend about six thousand rubles a month only on cigarettes.
Our first idea was a failure.
The first thing we decided to do was to gradually reduce cigarettes smoked per day. So, we set ourselves the goal of smoking not the usual 20-25 cigarettes per day, but 15, next week - 13, then - 10 and so on, until the value reaches zero.
Honestly, this technique to fight nicotine addiction was a failure. I perfectly understood that instead of 13 cigarettes in the second week I smoked the same 15, persuading my brain not to pay attention to deception. It was necessary to come up with something else, because even the skeptic Igor supported me that we could not achieve our goals at such a pace - we still smoke, just fooling ourselves with less cigarettes (in fact, this was not at all )
Then we decided not to buy cigarettes at all
When we realized that our first idea failed miserably, I suggested that my spouse simply did not buy cigarettes at all, under any pretext.
I must say right away that the realization of this idea was very difficult, because the mere thought of smoking, which seemed to be leaving my head, made me sick: it seemed to me personally that my body was experiencing a catastrophic breakdown, my head was beginning to hurt wildly and irritability appeared. Apparently, the husband suffered from the same symptoms. We had to spend a whole week in a very aggressive state, but we never broke. How? I can’t imagine!
In the process of implementing this idea, I realized that almost all of our everyday life revolves around cigarettes.I was terribly lacking something in my hands while drinking morning coffee, I felt awkward at the wheel, and also noticed how my husband was literally lost in the process of talking with friends.
Several times it was unbearable - Igor and I began to “shoot” cigarettes, comforting ourselves by the fact that we do not spend money on them. When at one moment I realized that after one smoked portion of nicotine it became even worse to live without it, it dawned on me that it was time to end with the “shooting”.
After 2.5 weeks, I realized that I personally already live normally without nicotine, my husband this period came only after 3 weeks. I gradually began to bounce back, began to respond adequately to the world around me, and also to think more or less coherently, not dreaming of a cigarette. What is most interesting - after a month the aroma of tobacco smoke and a cigarette smack began to cause me disgust, and not an open buzz, as it was before. Then I realized that I would no longer be addicted as before. Igor admitted that he had a similar condition, which indicated success in the fight against addiction - we celebrated the victory over the enemy.
I realized the added benefit of quitting smoking when I calculated our family savings.
One fine day, I decided to calculate the amount that my husband and I were able to save over these two years, during which we did not smoke. It turned out that this value fluctuates somewhere around 140 thousand rubles!
When I called this amount to my husband, he was very surprised, because it didn’t even occur to him how much money he and I were taking to harm our own health. A strong moral blow for him was the realization that over the years of smoking we spent a little less than a million rubles on cigarettes. Roughly speaking, we simply lowered this money into the air, but we could collect and spend on something worthwhile.
Realizing the global mistake of the past, I suggested that my spouse save as much as 100 rubles every day in a separate piggy bank. This amount is small - together we could afford to spend it daily for more than 10 years. With the money accumulated in this way, we decided to buy something that we would never dare to spend money on, but what exactly will turn out to be, is still unknown - time will tell!
In conclusion, I want to add that nicotine addiction is definitely not a sentence, you can and even need to fight it, moreover, ruthlessly, abruptly breaking off any contact with cigarettes. It is very good when there is a person nearby who is ready to support you in this and to stand on one side in the fight against the enemy. Igor and I managed to do this - from a battle that most smokers consider unequal, we won three weeks later and now have the opportunity to save on the realization of our common dream.
