For the vast majority of my adult life I have been a smoker. I do not remember exactly when I started to smoke. To me it isn’t exactly a red-letter day that I wish to enshrine in my personal memory space.

I guess I must have been around eighteen. This is the age in most countries and cultures that a person turns into a grownup; a responsible and mature person who should really determine what is good and what is bad.

Well, I started to smoke. I fell madly in love with Lady Nicotine and succumbed to her nefarious charms. This affair has lasted for nearly a lifetime.

However, I have recently realized that I want out of a relationship that is just not suitable for me. Metaphors aside, I am now determined to give up smoking. I am making active efforts in that direction.

I’ve not been capable of quitting cold turkey. Giving up smoking isn’t as easy as it sounds. At the very least for me personally it hasn’t been a cakewalk, as for a long time I used to be in a denial mode and I needed to have my cake and eat it too.

Everything recently started after i chose to adopt a jogging regimen, as I desired to shed pounds. There’s a small yet steep hill right in the center of the jogging course which i frequent. I just could not quite negotiate the hill. I was huffing and puffing all over the place by the time I reached the top and usually needed to pause and gather my breath.

The irony of it struck me that I was going over the hill but was incapable to make it over that hill. The jogging routine had shaken not just stagnant tissue and muscle but additionally my conscience. I was starting to make some progress, but that hill bothered me.

A little goes a long way never was as obvious to me as when i took up jogging in an attempt to give up smoking. I blundered on. I was determined to make a difference. It was a good three months before I could negotiate that hill without almost collapsing and heading down on my knees.

My efforts began to pay off! I began to feel better about my body and myself. I was breathing, sleeping and eating much better. I haven’t been able to quit smoking yet! But I am working at it! Everydaythere are a number of battles I win when i refuse myself a smoke. There are battles which i lose too. The war is still on. I know I am going to win. Someday I’ll give up smoking. I just hope it isn’t too late when i finally manage to quit!

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