I was about 30 years old and was smoking anywhere between 15 and 25 cigarettes a day. My wife and I just had our first baby, Candice. She’s the best thing in our lives. My wife Clara doesn’t smoke. I wanted to quit before but I always gave in after a few days or weeks, it wasn’t until Candice was born that I started to think about it again – I had found the reason to quit smoking.
I thought about how she would grow up, and how I should be an example for her and not tell her to do this and that, and she mustn’t do this and mustn’t do that, but explain things to her so she can make the good decision herself. And I realized that obviously I’ll tell her that smoking’s bad, and that I’ll be doing myself just that. It didn’t make any sense.
Why I Believe People Need A Reason To Quit Smoking
Sometimes motivation is everything. If you have the right motive, if your reasons are strong enough, you’ll succeed. I tried again, put it aside, occupied my mind with different thoughts – and there’s plenty to do when you have a small kid around. I haven’t smoked at all for about 10 years now, and I’m the happiest person because I know my daughter will have something to learn from me.
I encourage all individuals out there to find their own reason to quit smoking, to look into their lives, look at themselves in the mirror – both literally and figuratively – and find this reason, it will be your source of inner strength and your motivator. It will help you to quit for the first time, or the second, third, fourth – but you’ll never give up, because it will also give you the power to keep trying until you succeed.
