As there are people on here with an interest in quitting smoking, I just want to give my experience of trying to quit smoking. I am 42 and have smoked since I was an teenager. Over the years there have been some half hearted attempts, that lasted a few days or maybe weeks at a push, but I always went back on them. I have a four year old son, who as any little boy, has his mum as the centre of his life. So anyway, I start hearing this quit smoking add on the radio. Its about a teenage girl , and she's talking about her mum who was a smoker, how she was always there for her, if she had any problems in school etc. She was 45 when she was diagnosed with lung cancer, and 46 when she died. This really hit home with me. I started to imagine what life would be like for my son without a mother. I have to say it brought me to tears. So, I gave up smoking on 04 Jan. For him. One slip up a week later when I was on a night out with other smokers, but none since. Its very hard to give up - make no mistake about that. I have found the nicorette spray to be good.
I suppose the message here is that I never really had the will power to give up just for myself, its my son that I'm doing it for. I imagine alot of other smokers are the same. I think more ads should be directed to the impact on a familys life on the death of a smoker, that the individual themselves. It's what did it for me.