Chris Sargent Quits Smoking for the Last Time

I Have a Problem in

I am a smoker. There, I said it. I have smoked since I was 18 years old. Also, almost since I started, I claimed I would quit by the time I turned 25. The problem is this: I turn twenty-five in, well you can see when. This puts me in a bit of a pickle. How do I quit smoking in less than six months?

I do not remember a lot of the first things I did in my life, but I do remember my first cigarette. It was an unfiltered pall mall, the same kind the Kurt Vonnegut smoked. I was 18 and it felt so right. From the beginning I was aware of the health aspect of smoking i.e. it is bad for you. I just did not care about my health.

It was years later when I was 20 that I started to experience some of the negative effects of smoking first hand. I caught a bad case of bronchitis that turned into pneumonia. Even then I would manage to choke my way through another cigarette despite my doctor’s warning that my lungs were filling with fluid. The chronic hacking cough did not deter me, nor the pleas of my doctor. For me it was when I started coughing up blood, and what looked like little pieces of lung, that I realized that I might have a problem. At that moment I made up my mind to quit smoking once and for all...

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