Kicking a Bad Habit

People start smoking for many different reasons, sometimes it is to look cool in front of their friends other times it's just to see what it's like. Once one starts smoking it is often hard to kick the habit. My husband has been smoking since he was about 14 years old, I started when I was 19. My reason for picking up a cigarette was to try and release some stress. At the time I was going through a lot in life and I was having a hard time dealing with those issues. So I turned to cigarettes. At first they gave me a bad headache, but they helped keep my mind of the things going on around me. I tried to quit smoking several different times. However, the addiction was to much and once I quit I would end up starting back up again. I quit while I was pregnant for my daughter. About a month after she was born I started again, depression sunk in and I was in need of my nicotine. It took me almost 7 years from starting again to put the cigarette down and never pick it up again. I … [Read more...]