I gave up smoking shortly before my baptism in 1971. In 2006 I started smoking again out of stress (but I did try a few in 2004) and was hooked again. It wasn't long and I was coughing and wheezing as if I had never stopped 30 some years before.
It seemed that each year since I started back up in 2006 that I wound up with bronchitis at least twice a year. It really scared me. Well finally in October of 2012 I had my Doctor give me the patch. I had it for 14 days and haven't had the urge for another smoke since.
Coming up on six months clean and don't even think about it anymore. The monetary rewards are even better. i was smoking Camel Lights which cost $6.27 a pack. So it comes out that I was smoking a pack a day which came to about $185.00 or so a month. Wow! What I have saved in the past six months has more than paid for my two flights to visit my daughter in southwest Florida.
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