I continue smoking until I was 27 at that time I was preparing myself to take the IELTS exam. I had a classmate back then named Mr. Dehghan who played a decisive role on helping me to quit smoking. One night after attending the English class we were on our way home, since we were neighbors we usually accompany each other, he talked to me about smoking and its dangers to health, I already heard these stuff thousand times before but this time was different because of the incident I had a week before. A week before my talk with Mr. Dehghan I got home for lunch and I saw my family staring at the TV screen. At first I thought they are watching some scientific documentary about underwater species but to my amazement I found out what they were watching was actually my father’s bladder surgery.
My father is a heavy smoker he smokes a pack of cigarette since he was 20 and that is why he got bladder cancer and he needs to do this surgery every few years but still he smokes!
I guess you can say that I was finally ready to hear the facts about smoking and think about it. By hearing I mean to take the dangers seriously, every smoker knows the hazards of smoking but doesn’t take it seriously until the wakeup call which could be a stroke or cancer or heart failure. Fortunately my wakeup call was my father’s cancer.
Anyway Mr. Dehghan talked to me on Sunday evening, October 19, 2008 and since then I have not smoke pretty much anything that can be smoked. By this post I wanted to thank Mr. Dehghan for helping me to quit smoking.
I will write about how I quit smoking on later posts. To be continued.
