[00:00.49]After reading an article entitled 'Cigarette Smoking and Your Health' I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves.
[00:09.85]I smoked with concentration and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette.
[00:18.29]For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly.
[00:27.12]I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite.
[00:36.16]My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars.
[00:40.96]They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket.
[00:48.24]After seven days of this I went to a party.
[00:53.09]Everybody around me was smoking and I felt extremely uncomfortable.
[00:58.80]When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear.
[01:05.96]I took one guiltily, lit it and smoked with satisfaction.
[01:12.60]My wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more.
[01:17.84]Anyway, as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking.
[01:25.71]He himself has done it lots of times!