personal story Archives

Quit One Thing and Start Another

First off, I’m not a smoker. I haven’t abstained from the activity entirely. Knowing smokers, I’ve had a few just to join them as we hung out. Not many tried to quit, but one kept trying and failing. Read more

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Hi, I’m Danny, I’m a Smoker and I’ve Been Smoking for 13 Years

I wish I could tell you a story of victory, of a life that’s not wasted and gone by.

But I think this battle’s been lost, I’m slowly wasting good bye. Read more

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You Need to Want to Want to Quit

This ties in with my last post.

After my mom read “Cinnamon Sticks,” she told me that I’d missed a key part in the story. Read more

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How Did I Manage… ?

Well, I’ve seen that some people wrote a personal story, and I will write my own here. Or, I should say, I will be writing some – as I have had a few experiences with different forms of smoking, mostly from second-hand or family-related issues. Read more

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I had to quit smoking

In January of 2011, I had developed a heart condition known as atrial fibrillation. As I prepared to go in for my first internal x-rays, I was so scared the results would reveal my 28 + years of smoking by way of charred lungs and blackened ventricles. I decided on that day to quit smoking cold turkey. Read more

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Beat the Addiction for Today and Tomorrow

By the time we realize that smoking is a bad habit and we must give it up, we are already addicted. The reason I say we is because even though I am not addicted to smoking, I know what addiction is. Read more

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All Because of Them

The day before I turned 26, I posted this Facebook status, “After tomorrow, I will be 4 years from 30 with hardly anything to show for it.” Read more

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Discovering Myself Through Seasons

Life has a weird way of taking us through seasons of ups and downs. Some days we wake up to a beautiful sunrise and believe we are truly happy. Other days we fall asleep angry with the world or just ourselves. We may believe that our lives have very little purpose and by this time we should be doing something greater. Read more

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Little things make a difference

It was a normal day at work and I was trying to grab a bite at the crowded canteen. At about the same time I reached the counter, another worker too came nearby with his plate. Since I was furiously text-messaging, I didn’t notice that the canteen staffer ignoring him started serving me first. Read more