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I’ve never celebrated any of my birthday. I’ve also barely attended any birthday celebration of my friends. I always insist that celebrating one’s birthday is a waste of time. Besides birthday is not worth celebrating. If anything, everyday should be celebrated because every single day is important. For me, today is as important as yesterday, tomorrow, next month and next year, etc.
But this time around I want to do it. I should celebrate this day–even just by writing about it– because I consider today as one of those pivotal moment in my life. An achievement of short. Today last year was where I started to quit smoking. And from then on not a single cigarette comes in between my lips. It’s been a big success because I’ve been trying many times before to no avail.
And I am happy with that. I am happy for more than one reasons:
First, independence. In my whole life what I feel proud of myself, if anything, is my independency. For the better or the worse, I am proud of the fact that I am known as independent individual who doesn’t like to depend on something or someone or at least try hard to be so. Being independent is a virtue which make a person’s dignity, among other things, looks outstanding. Despite dependency on smoking is nothing to do with it, it feels good to be independence from it.
Second, health. Ask every chain smokers, deep in their hearts they worried about the future of their health. They keep smoking because they simply couldn’t get away from this habit. I am happy I no longer have that health-scary feeling.
Third, feeling more freedom literally. If you going abroad frequently you’d feel more freedom literally if you are not a smoker. More and more airports are restricting smokers to smoke freely. Some airports give a smoking-area which is narrower by the day. Making the smokers like a bunch of drug addicts gathering in one place for something many people wonder. By quit smoking, you’ll no longer have the drug-addict image. More important, you no longer feel marginalized.
Fourth, sexy mouth. Well, ask your spouse. Your mouth smells sexier without cigarette.
If you wanted to know how I could quit smoking, this is the simple tips for you based on my own experience:
So, to quit smoking is simple insofar as I am concerned. First, you got to have a serious intention and willingness to change a particular habit. Second, pick the most important moment of your lives to start with e.g. the birth of your most awaited son, your birthday, your wedding day, etc. Third, be consistent. Never try to fool your self by “Hey, it’s ok to try just once a day.” When you decide to stop smoking, it means stop it altogether never try it even once. Period.
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October 20, 2009 at 5:54 pm
nice info mas fatih
October 24, 2009 at 3:38 pm
PAsti saya Coba…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 28, 2009 at 7:43 pm
wah, buat ane nisa stop merokok merupkan prestasi besar. Tp sayangnya skarang blom pgen berenti. hehe…
masih pecandu yang blom tobat ni mas.
November 7, 2009 at 4:30 am
Salah kenal Mas Fatih…and congratulation, wah blog saya malah tentang rokok, sebenarnya saya sendiri juga mau berusaha berhenti dari merokok. Kalau kita sedang jalan-jalan ke Kabupaten Tulungagung, Propinsi Jawa timur, istilah CETHE atau NYETHE sudah tidak asing lagi. Cethe atau Nyethe, hal tersebut tidak dapat terpisahkan dengan rokok dan kopi. ” Cethe ” merupakan kata benda yang artinya ampas wedang kopi yang telah diendapkan dan siap untuk dioles-oleskan pada batang rokok. Sedangkan ” Nyethe ” merupakan kegiatan mengoles-oleskan ampas wedang kopi pada batang rokok. Rokok yang dicethe hasilnya bervariasi, tergantung inspirasi orangnya, ada yang dominan lukis, batik, rasa dan aroma…..
November 14, 2009 at 2:48 am
tanks for the tips…I hope it works
November 25, 2009 at 8:36 pm
setuju kalo pada berhenti ngrokok
November 26, 2009 at 12:30 pm
That is nice,congratulations.. i wish you will confine that good habit
December 5, 2009 at 12:56 am
selamat aj gan…
December 5, 2009 at 10:42 pm
merokok pmbunuh yang scara prlahan2….
December 9, 2009 at 6:41 pm
i was try so hard to quit smoking but you know it. i was failed. congratulation for u
December 22, 2009 at 11:01 am
hallo how are you. the link I’ve put my diblog not yet closed the link underneath. because a new study blogging. OK backlinks
December 23, 2009 at 12:27 pm
how nicotin attack the center pulse?
December 24, 2009 at 12:10 am
Cigars are silent killer
December 28, 2009 at 9:20 am
selamat juga bro….
December 30, 2009 at 2:04 pm
DON’T CUT MY ROKOK
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ussa-jaya/
December 30, 2009 at 2:07 pm
OGH MY ROKOK ..
December 30, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Yes! I have quit smoking either!
January 2, 2010 at 2:30 pm
betul mas peroko itu di kucilkan…
January 10, 2010 at 12:00 am
gue aslinya bukan perokok, cuman kadang suka iseng aja ngrokok. Tp uda skitar 2-3 taon terakhir gue stop sama skali krn ktnya dosa hehe
January 19, 2010 at 6:56 am
First thing is give yourself some self confidence to quit the smoking. After that you should know what are the problem when smoking and advantages of quitting smoking, then say the way. Some easy way is to use whenever willing to smoke means chewwing gum, and tablet is available it gives the effect of smoking.