How did I quit smoking. How did I quit smoking. Five years ago, I quit smoking. Before that, I used to smoke a pack of cigarettes every day, so I was in very bad shape - but one day, I decided to change that! I was in a pub, talking with a friend's girlfriend, she was smoking, and I was out of tobacco. Instead of asking her for a cigarette, I thought: "I don't need this, and I know that it isn't good for me, and it's also expensive, so... why do I smoke? It makes no sense!". So I made my decision, took breath, threw my lighter to the garbage, and prepared myself to be a non-smoker again. The first day was very easy. It was just like: "OK, just don't think about tobacco". But, after the third day, things became harder. I started to get bored, and anxious, and to don't know what to do with my hands. Fortunately, I had two allies: to drink water and to run. Drink water is very important if you are quit smoking. Water keeps you occupied - when you are an smoker, and you don't know what to do, the little junkie inside your brain tries to make you smoke. So, if you carry with you a bottle of water, when you don't have nothing to do, you can drink instead of light a cigarette. Water also helps to clean your body. Running works in the same way than water. It keeps you occupied for a time, and it cleans your lungs and your throat - this is more obvious when you cought and spit snot after running. The bad news is that running is harder when you are not used to do it - and rarely an habitual runner is also an smoker. After the first week, if you success to resist, then it gets more and more easy, and after a month, you seldom even think about tobacco. But, again, there are bad news - once a smoker, forever an smoker. If you quit smoking, you are like in Alcoholics Anonimous - you cannot smoke even a single cigarette, or you'll fall again in your addiction. Although quit smoking is not easy, I can swear that it's possible if you want. I did it, and five years later, I'm very happy with that decission.