Hello, and welcome to the first topic in the final cigarette formula, I'm sure that you're now in a position that you feel ready to quit and you're thinking, when is going to be the best time for me to quit, just to make sure you get the best results and you don't start again. Now I can totally understand this, you have a million different things going on your life, there could be something big coming up, such as a wedding, or you might be about starting a new job. And you don't want this on your mind. And you want to continue life as normal until you get settled into what it is that whatever it is that you're doing. maybe don't have anything coming up. And soon you're having a period of not really much going on your life.

Now many social events happening or you worried by having no distractions that you're going to sit at home and thinking about smoking. So to help you with this decision, I'm actually going to tell you what happened to me when I decided to quit. I knew I wanted to quit. So I'd also made the all important choice to stop and it was the right time for me to stop. But I was worried How I would do it. I was working on board cruise ships at the time.

So the actual financial burden of paying for my nicotine addiction was completely removed because cigarettes on board ships are actually very cheap for crew members. They're only about one pound a pack. So the financial incentive for me to actually stop was completely removed. Now, I've actually been running in duty free shops on both the ships for quite a while. And I've been running on a quite a small ship. So I was actually looking for a new challenge, I've requested to go to a much bigger, more challenging ship.

And little did I know at the time, it was actually going to be the most hardest and stressful few months of my entire seven years at sea. So I decided that I was going to smoke my final cigarette before I actually got transferred to the new ship. So I wouldn't have all that on my mind. I thought if I could stop just prior and then I go to my new ship and I conquer all that potential stress there without smoking then I Know that I would be happy nonsmoker after that experience. On the other hand, I was actually quite fearful of stopping. I'm sat there in my cabin where I smoked most of my cigarettes, usually running down from the shops every few hours.

I was sat there smoking my cigarettes, thinking about how they made me feel, and asking myself the same questions that I've been asking you to ask yourself throughout this course. Do I actually enjoy this? Do I feel any better? I'm just giving myself those two minutes before I had want to see if I actually needed it. Now, don't get me wrong. I did not do all of this alone.

I did have a friend who had stopped previously. And they gave me some things to think about. And he told me that personal experience and what they went through, to help them to quit. So I did have that backup there. They told me that reasons for quitting, how it changed their attitude and they remove their desire to smoke and once all that was gone, that it was simple, and knew what it was that I needed to do the mental triggers As that popped up was something that I was not expecting. But they were very easy to get rid of within like two seconds, I could get rid of them.

So I smoked my final cigarette, which I have to admit by that point I didn't even want. I only ended up smoking half of it, to be honest with you. And I've not actually touched one in about five years. I couldn't even give you the exact date that I actually stopped because I don't remember that day. It's not really relevant for me, because I don't feel like there's anything missing from my life, and I don't feel deprived of it at all. So as she stopped smoking before I got transferred to my new ship.

And once I got the new ship, I could tell you, I was the most stressed I've ever been in my life. But throughout all of it, I never went to smoking is my solution. I was actually surrounded by all the smokers because all the other people around me were quite stressed to the operation that was going on, but I never saw it as my solution. Now I'm not afraid to admit I did break down in tears few times during the ship. But it wasn't anything to do with smoking. I just had a mammoth task that I'd taken on with that particular ship that I was on.

There's nothing on it was running properly. But I came through it. I was there for about four months in total. And when I came off, I realized that I hadn't even had the desire or the wants, or even the go to my mentality is even think I wanted to go smoking. I had come through the whole situation, realizing that I hadn't smoked. I was so happy about it, because stress was a particular trigger point for me to smoke.

It showed me that I could tackle anything that came my way without even thinking that I need a cigarette to help me through it. So to answer the question of this topic, when is actually the best time to quit. It's now if you wait for the perfect time to quit, I'm sorry to say it's never going to come along. There will always be something some reason for you to keep smoking and holding yourself back from your new happy life or being an smoker. So I'd like you to take a moment and pick a date when you will stop that is right for you. And on that day, in that moment, I want you to smoke your final cigarette.

Make an internal agreement with yourself that you will never smoke again, so you can set yourself free. Now if you need a little more convincing, I'm not really sure how you could by this point, all you're ready to smoke your final cigarette. I'll see you in the next video. Bye for now.