Hi, my friend - If you want to know how to stop smoking at a convention or a trade show I think I can help.
My name is Bill and I'm an ex-smoker. I quit smoking about 15 years ago. I have over the years had the occasion to go to quite a number of trade shows and conventions and I remember very vividly when I smoked how it felt.
First of all, depending on how I traveled to the convention or the trade show, I had to worry about smoking during my journey. In a number of cases, because we had to go to several shows, maybe about five or six hours away, it was not uncommon for some colleagues of mine in the area to rent a van, and travel together.
There were a number of non-smokers on the trips, so needless to say, unless we stopped somewhere to get something to eat or go to the bathroom, the rest of the time driving I could not smoke. This gave me a lot of anxiety and made me very uptight inside. The whole thought of going to a place that's not where I worked and not where I lived gave me enough anxiety.
As well you want to do your best, you want to prepare your best and you want to impress your bosses. You want to represent your company right, want to represent your colleagues right, and the pressure's on.
When the pressure's on you want to smoke.
So the first leg of that journey is to get there and deal with the limited amount of smoking on the trip. After arrival, normally I would have to stay several nights, so you always had to make sure you somehow got a smoking room if it was available.
Then there was the chance of having to share a room due to a company saving money or maybe even a limited number of rooms. Is the person you shared with agreeable to your smoking? More than once, I had to go to the hallway or go outside.
Then there were always the dinners, the lunches, and the breakfasts. You are generally on a time schedule, so maybe you had a group breakfast as a company and you had to start meeting at eight in the morning. As a smoker, you always have to leave those five minutes for the last cigarette. Five minutes that you could race to the nearest door, run outside and puff away.
Then try to catch up with everybody else, and make sure you weren't late for the meeting!
But as a smoker, you definitely needed that nicotine fix.
You know, the same was true with every meal I had, anywhere. I always had to excuse myself and leave a little early to ( in most cases,) go outside, which in some cases was quite a walk depending on the size of the facility I was in. It might be raining outside, or it might be snowing outside, or it might be windy outside.
Oddly enough, what I would generally find is the smoker’s camaraderie could be a good thing, That handful of smokers was in the same boat as me. So if the group lunch was ending and we all had to be at meetings in ten minutes, that same core group of people would be outside puffing away, and again despite the weather, despite how cold it was, we were all getting our fix.
Everybody outside has that little sheepish smile because we all realized what was going on. We were all smokers and we needed our fix. It didn't make me feel very good, especially if I went in cold or wet.
Then I remember when we were inside the show or convention, there'd always be those times when I felt that I wanted a cigarette, but it was too busy, or too much was going on, or something was about to start again. Throughout the whole day, it was ongoing that I was always thinking about whether or not I could sneak away now, to have a cigarette.
Smoking created an overbearing problem for me the whole time I was there, so instead of me learning, or instead of me enjoying, or instead of me engaging, or instead of me representing, and instead of me putting my best foot forward to my bosses or to my company - my mind was focused on where was I going to have my next cigarette.
As I said before, it's been about 15 years ago that I quit. After quitting cigarettes, I went to events like that, when I would finish eating and walk back with my group I would be in a meeting, or I would be on the trade show floor, or wherever it might be and it didn't matter at all. I was not thinking about cigarettes.
I learned to stop smoking.
Cigarettes were just no longer in my vocabulary and what a difference it made. Not to mention I felt better. I breathed better. I could stand longer. All the good things that you know will come when you quit smoking. You will just feel like a different person.
So if you need to, or want to quit smoking before a convention or a trade show I would like to tell you that 15 years ago when I quit smoking, one thing I did a little uniquely is at the time, I documented everything I did to prepare ahead of time, and what I did at the point I was going to quit. I documented how I felt after quitting smoking.
Now, 15 years later, as I get near retirement I've decided to put this all together as a program and make it available to help other people quit smoking. It will sell for less than the cost of one carton of cigarettes in many places around the country right now, so if you are interested and you'd like to learn a little bit more, click the link now.
You stand nothing to lose. I will tell you that I believe this program works. I literally bet my life on it!
I look forward to seeing you as a non-smoker!
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