7 days on.

Hello. I am pleased to announce that it has no been one week since I threw my pack under the tap and into the bin (only way to do it, otherwise I would be fishing them out the next day!). I have smoked since about 20. It was the worst decision I ever made. I have tried to stop many many times on patches, gum, hypnosis and cold turkey. This time I did it CT with the assistance of Allen Carr's Easyway. Last weekend I was at a party and I met a very attractive woman and she said to me what a nice guy I was, but a pity about the smoking (unfortunately she was taken!). Well, I think that finally "did" something to me. A trigger, if you will. I have had Allen's book for years and years. Yes I have read it quite a few times and even managed to stay off the cigarettes for a few months. Somehow this time I just feel free. I have had absolutely no withdrawal, just perhaps a bit of lost feeling not knowing to do with all my free time! In fact, I feel fantastic and I would say I am enjoying life more than ever (that's what my biggest fear was). I would normally say that only seven days in I am still "not out of the woods"...but to hell with that, I just don't smoke anymore and that's the way I like it. I am not waiting for any confirmation that I am over it, it is here with me now. I have simply looked behind the illusion of my smoking addiction (why I smoke) and just worked out that it was all a big fat con. I thought I needed to smoke because of stress, relaxation etc, but in the end I just smoked because I was a hopeless nicotine addict,Herbal cigarettes, I already knew that of course but didn't really think about the whys. I think if you think you are missing out on something, then you will undoubtedly feel terrible withdrawal. And, to cap it off, I just visited a pro-smoking lobby site to see the brainwashed speak...and I must say, if I ever saw an excuse to bury your head in the sand and justify all the rubbish excuses why people smoke, then that is it. And it helped me even further in understanding that smoking is just ONE BIG CON TRICK!! Good luck to you all, whatever method you use, as long as it works!