How I Quit Smoking: A Personal Journey

Brut India

“I was frustrated!” Sandeep Singh wanted to quit smoking, but things took a strange turn…  TrueFit

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00:00On May 24, 2020, I took a 100-day challenge to quit smoking permanently.

00:20I started keeping cigarettes at home.

00:30I started meditating.

00:43It was helping me.

00:44When we leave one habit, another one comes up.

00:50My drinking increased.

00:52I used to drink very occasionally.

00:53And somehow I had a stock of drinking during the lockdown.

00:58I started drinking every other day.

01:00And the problem with drinking is that you eat a lot.

01:08I used to have a headache, but I was breathing well.

01:12I got a little constipation issue.

01:15I was very tired of meditation.

01:17Because there were kids at home, so I used to feel like I should go out.

01:23But because of Corona, I was not able to go out.

01:28I used to feel like I can't go out, I can't smoke, I can't drink.

01:32I used to get frustrated.

01:34I used to take one cigarette a day.

01:38I used to feel good.

01:44My drinking was going on, so I controlled it.

01:47It was going on, but I was in control.

01:49But because of quitting smoking, my lungs were very good.

01:52I was feeling good.

01:53I didn't have that many headaches.

01:55But because of drinking, I had a lot of other problems.

02:02I reduced my drinking a lot.

02:04I didn't quit it completely.

02:05Because quitting was not possible for me at that time.

02:09So I reduced it a lot.

02:11I had already brought my sugary stuff on my fruits.

02:18And drinking water helped me a lot.

02:25I felt good.

02:27I didn't have a fever.

02:28I was very scared because I had quit smoking before.

02:32For even a longer period of time.

02:34So I had to pay a lot of attention to my lifestyle this time.

02:39So that I don't have this thing again, which has come back 3-4 times before.

02:49I tried to be more happy, more engaged with my children.

02:53I quit smoking to take care of my two-year-old kids.

03:00The lockdown started here.

03:02And then I started to eat and drink outside.

03:10I think it was the third birthday of the kids.

03:13On the 10th of June, I wasn't even in the pictures.

03:16Because I started despising myself so much.

03:18Like how am I looking?

03:23My expected weight was 75 kgs.

03:26I exceeded my goal.

03:27I went out to 68 kgs.

03:30I am very proud to say that I did it.

03:33And it has been more than 500 days of non-smoking.

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