Breaking the habit

     I enjoyed smoking; it was a good stress reliever. I didn’t smoke a lot, but from the point of a doctor even one cigarette is too much. I knew smoking was bad for my health, but I still did it. I thought many times about quitting, a few times I did. But then the stress got to me and I’d start back up. And I’d say to myself “what’s the point every time I try to quit, I end up getting so stressed out that I start back up.” Then there would be times where I would only not smoke because I couldn’t afford the brand I smoked. But money would come in and I would start back up. My husband was in the same position as me.  Finally we decided that we should really quit because it would not only be better for our health but would save us a lot of money. So we finally broke the habit. It has now been six months since we quit smoking. Although it has been a while it is still sometimes really hard to fight the urge to want to go buy a pack. I will sometimes have days where I will be so stressed that I feel like I’m about to burst. But I just take a deep breath and say I do not need a cigarette. Then I will put some music on and listen for a while until my stress level goes down. It sometimes hard to not smoke, but I have broken the bad habit of smoking. Now the next habit I am still struggle to break is to stop drinking soda, or at the very least stop drinking so much.