EP53: How a Relapse Led to Finally Quitting Smoking for Good - Peter
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What motivated Peter to start talking about his smoking journey?
Have you ever quit smoking only to slide back into the habit after having just one? Is an absolutely critical moment. For Peter, the stinging disappointment of that relapse didn't break him. It actually helped solidified his resolve to stay quit for good. He discovered that once he put some distance between himself and the habit, smoking simply no longer provided the comfort that it used to. It was a tough transition out of smoking, but Peter shares what helped him get through that rough patch on this week's episode of You Can Quit Smoking. Hi everyone, welcome back. I'm here today with Peter. Peter, tell us a little bit about yourself.
I'm fifty-two. I'm a dad. I'm a husband, busy professional. I stay as active as I can, do a lot in the outdoors, a lot of walking, a lot of hiking, paddling with my wife, and we have a rescue dog who is originally from Texas but now lives with us in Canada and is weirdly fond of the snow and the cold.
Well sounds like a nice little life you have for yourself. And I want to talk to you more about smoking. What's your story with smoking?
My story with smoking started a long, long time ago. I I don't even want to do the math on it because it it'd be horrifying. But I probably wasn't even a teenager actually when when I started to make the decision to smoke. I mean like not even just like having a puff off of somebody's cigarette. I mean going to actually source a pack of cigarettes on my own and smoking a couple and and so forth. And I was probably ten or eleven, so quite a long time ago. Back in those days it was probably easier at that point for kids to get their hands on a pack of cigarettes. You know, just sort of a a quick cover story that I was buying them for somebody and there I uh had them in my hands. I couldn't bring them home though.
I certainly wasn't allowed to smoke by my parents. So my typical pattern back in those early days, I'd I'd buy a pack of cigarettes and I'd smoke one and I'd feel sick and I'd put the pack aside. I'd I'd hide it. I'd usually like hide it somewhere outside somewhere where I Knew where they were, and then I'd go back a couple of days and they'd be gone and buy another pack. So cigarettes were very expensive for me, actually, come to think of it back in those days. I was paying essentially the price of a full pack for a single cigarette in most cases. So that kind of just on and off continued. But when I was 13, 14, 15, I was well and good into the habit. And at that point was sort of out in the world as a smoker.
My parents knew that I smoked at that That point. I was buying them on my own and they weren't happy about it, but they were accepting. And I continued on that way for quite a number of years. Cigarettes were getting a little bit more expensive back then. There were times when it was a bit of a pinch to buy them. I do live in Canada, and the taxes on uh cigarettes can be pretty punitive. They sort of put up the taxes as a a means of encouraging people to stop smoking. They were getting expensive, but I always somehow found the money to buy cigarettes, even when It was difficult to find money to buy other things that I needed and wanted in my life. Somehow the money was always there for the cigarettes. And so that continued on through my twenties.
Started working. Smoking became increasingly a part of my social life as well. My wife at the time were not together any longer. This is my son's mom was also a smoker. We smoked in our own house.
How did Peter first get into smoking and what was it like as a kid?
And so, you know, there was always cigarettes around. There was always cigarette smoke around. I would say that from you know 17, 18 for the next maybe twelve, thirteen years until I was coming up in my 30s, I was pretty close to a pack a day and sometimes more, maybe just under a pack to a pack and a half a day, every single day that would fail. And I can't honestly say that at the time that I noticed uh a meaningful impact on my health. I certainly didn't have the cardio stamina that some of my friends might have had. It's not like I was suffering that my health was suffering because I was a cigarette smoker.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What motivated Peter to start talking about his smoking journey?
0:00–2:53
2
How did Peter first get into smoking and what was it like as a kid?
2:53–6:26
3
When did Peter become aware of the health and smell issues from smoking?
6:26–17:08
4
Why did becoming a parent become the turning point for quitting?
17:08–18:36
Speakers
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