After reading an article entitled 'Cigarette Smoking and Your Health' I lit a
cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoked with concentration and pleasure as I was
sure that this would be my last cigarette. For a whole week I did not smoke at
all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly. I had all the usual
symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite.
My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. They made no effort to
hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket.
After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking
and I felt extremely uncomfortable. When my old friend Brian urged me to
accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear. I took one guiltily, lit it
and smoked with satisfaction. My wife was delighted that things had returned
to normal once more. Anyway, as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in
the world to give up smoking. He himself has done it lots of times!&