Chickening Out On Cold Turkey... Quit Smoking Update 2008

Sometime on the night of 31st December 2006, I finished my last stick of cigarette and told myself I'm gonna quite smoking for good. Well, 2007 had not been a clean year.

I managed to stay smoke free for the first eight months. However while on an assignment in Sydney in September last year, I succumbed to the temptations after a can of beer. It's the beer; it's always the beer.

So for one week I had been drawing smoke Down Under, inhaling deep, enjoying the rush of nicotine and at the same time hating myself for doing what I was doing.

But I told myself there would be no more of that after Sydney. However, the addiction stayed after Sydney and friends had been offering free cigarettes, which took without hesitation.

So, I smoked for about two more weeks after Sydney and then, realising that I was being pulled deeper and deeper into my former chain-smoking self, I steeled my resolve and said enough was enough.

I managed to halt the decline just before sinking below the point of no return. From there, I crawled back out of the addiction pit and had not tasted a single stick ever since.

Click here for a complete story of my quit smoking attempt. For the record, I had been smoking heavily for over 20 years prior to the 2006 quit smoking attempt.