How I was finally able to quit smoking back in 1990…
I learned many decades ago that cigarette smoke contains over 100 carcinogenic chemicals, and that should have been the incentive I needed to stop smoking. I had quit smoking many times, but always started again in a moment of weakness. However, I was watching a WWII movie on TBS back on Memorial Day 1990. In the film, an Army soldier was critically wounded and lay there beyond help from his fellow soldiers. One soldier lit up a cigarette and placed it in the dying soldier’s mouth. He took a drag of the smoke and as he expired, the cigarette fell from his mouth.
Seeing that, I decided to quit smoking in honor of all those soldiers who died for their Country and could not smoke any more…so neither would I. If I ever started smoking again it would be to their dishonor. I threw away my cigarettes and have never smoked another cigarette since then. It has been more than 30 years since I quit smoking that Memorial Day in 1990 and I have never smoked another cigarette since. Honor of our fallen soldiers has worked for me. It may not work for everyone, but for me, swearing off smoking on that Memorial Day it has been a powerful deterrent to quit once and for all. Smokers who really want to quit smoking need to seek their own powerful incentive to stop smoking for good.