Start Smoking Story

Hi there,

My name is Todd Williams and I am here to help you to stop smoking.

Now, I am not one of those people who has never had a cigarette in their life and looks down their noses at smokers. I was a full time smoker for 4 years and I know what its like to have that nicotine craving. I would like to tell you my start smoking story.

I actually didn't start smoking full time until I was 20, which puts me in a bit of a minority because the vast majority of people take up the habit while at high school. I would like to tell you about my smoking history from my first cigarette until the day I stopped smoking 8 months ago.

Just like the first kiss, we all remember our first cigarette. Mine was with my mate Simon when we were 12 or 13 (cigarette, not kiss). His dad is a smoker and one day Simon decided it was time for us to see what all the fuss was about. We waited until his dad was asleep, pinched a ciggie and sneaked off to the garage. Never really being the rebellious type, I remember being nervous and excited. We were about to be very bad.

My mate Simon lit it up and took a drag, then handed it over to me. I held it to my lips with visions in my head of me coughing and spluttering all over the place (like they do in the movies), but I never did. We finished off the ciggie and all I remember was feeling slightly confused because it wasn't fun, it stunk and it tasted really bad. I have to admit, I did feel pretty cool though.

For the rest of my teenage years I would have had less than 10 cigarettes and I remember saying to people that I will never ever start smoking full time. Famous last words huh. I managed to survive all the smoking peer pressure through my teenage years so how did I start when I was 20. Well like for many of us it starts when we get to know our friend Mr Alcohol.

Every Friday I would go around to my mate Tim's place and we would have a few beers and play some darts. It became a weekly ritual for us. He is a smoker and after downing a few he would offer me a ciggie and being slightly intoxicated I would say yes. As the Fridays went by I gradually smoked more and more each time. One Friday he got a bit annoyed at the fact I was smoking all of his cigarettes so I decided I would buy some to take to his house on Fridays. Good idea in theory but the fact of the matter was I now had ciggies on me all the time. I began to smoke on other days, when I wasn't drinking and even on my own. Before I knew it I was buying pouches of tobacco and I was hooked.

Nicotine had won and it would continue to win for four more years.

I have been a non smoker for the past 8 months and I am 100% certain I will never, ever start again. Famous last words again I know but I know deep down inside myself that smoking is gone from my life, forever. You probably want to know how I quit and how I could be so confident of never starting again, well I'm going tell you. It is a method called the "Successfully Stop Smoking System".

It was the only thing that helped me and many others to stop smoking.