When different governments around the world have attempted to convince people to stop smoking, they always seem to go down the health route. It could be by showing a man who is dying of cancer for example.

I knew about all of the health risks that were involved with smoking but I still did it, I had a stuttering speech impediment and smoking was in my mind a good way to relax me.

I guess I smoked as a way of making me cope with things such as working at the DVD authoring company five days a week. Or maybe I smoked because my friends did. My best friend John who works for a business offering people an SEO copywriting service seemingly always has a fag in his mouth.

In my own mind any health problems were unlikely to really start affecting me for around thirty years. I used to say to myself that there is a good chance that I will not be alive in thirty years time and that I should live for today.

I really can not believe how much money it costs these days to buy a packet of 20 cigarettes in the UK. It is not that I can not afford to continue buying them, it is that I would rather spend the money on other things such as clothes or a holiday. It does not take a genius to work out that one could save over a grand per year if they could successfully quit smoking. I have to admit that this is a heck of a lot of money for me and this is what really helped me to fight off those nasty demonic voices in my head who used to tempt me into returning to those horrible and expensive cancer sticks.

There were of course other reasons why I wanted to stop smoking. These include the amount they make your clothes smell, the amount they make your house smell, the affect they have on your teeth, the fact that most women find smoking a turn off and the sheer dependency that one can get from cigarettes.