How To Stop Smoking at Disney World

 

If you want to know how to stop smoking at Disney World, then I think I can help!

As you can see, my family and I are pretty big fans of Disney,  and to back that claim up, here's Cinderella’s Castle which I keep right on the top of my arm! (shown in the video!)

It serves as a constant reminder for me to “Believe” that most things are indeed possible.

Anyway, my name is Bill, and I'm an ex-smoker and have been an ex-smoker

for about 15 years.

If you would like to quit smoking at Disney World or Universal Studios, I think what I have to say can help you.

I remember going to both wonderful theme parks, probably more times to Disney World. I remember going to Disney World as a smoker and remember that we were lucky enough to go several times, and each trip would be several years apart. 

Originally there was a fairly easy policy about cigarette smoking in the theme parks and resorts, which changed to virtually no place to smoke cigarettes on Disney or Universal properties. 

With that said, I remember my level of anxiety grew each vacation because we live in New York and my anxiety would begin on the airplane flight. Smoking anxiety (or lack of smoking anxiety to be more accurate) starts when preparing for your airplane flight. It continues at the airport, really kicks in on the plane ride, 

Then there is no relief in sight until you land, get your bags, and get outside!

All of those things made me want to smoke.

Then there is both the wait and the ride from the airport to Disney World. We have gotten lucky and the bus was only a short wait, and we also stood in line for almost an hour, even though we had arranged for the transportation in advance. This is the time my mind was craving a cigarette and I felt like the entire trip was going downhill. And then you get to wait to smoke while you actually ride on the bus!

You get to the Disney World resort and then you have all the check-in time, and you're excited about your room, and you know your family's all excited, and your kids are excited -  and there you are - sitting in the middle of it all thinking “I really could use a cigarette!”

Then you find your room, and you're really excited because you're in Disney World, then, of course, you can't smoke in the room, so you're one of those lucky people that are now unhappy as everybody settles into their new home for the duration of the vacation. They are all happy and can't wait to get to the parks, and you're asking them to wait a minute and let you go out to try and find a spot to go smoke a cigarette. 

So now you're trying to find a spot at the resort that allows smoking, wherever the designated areas are that you can smoke if there are any these days. I don't even know currently, as I haven't followed it that closely in recent years, but I'm

sure there are some designated spots in and around the resorts. I don't know

that for certain but I know that it created anxiety for me when I smoked, because all they wanted to do is have my next cigarette

 

As a smoker, when I was in the parks there used to be a reasonable number of places where a smoker could stop to inhale smoke. 

The last trip I made to Disney World as a smoker comes to mind when thinking about this video. When you plan a trip to Disney, maybe months in advance, you

can't pick your weather. Florida often has days where they have some rain at

least part of the day, but sometimes it rains a lot. We were lucky enough that one of the days we had picked to go to Magic Kingdom was a day that it rained a lot. 

The upside is that there are not many people there because of the rain. We brought our rain ponchos along so we put them on. Our kids were younger and didn’t mind the rain as much - they wanted to ride the rides. We were able to go out and stand in the rain, while I kept the camcorder under the poncho.

I remember going on the Dumbo ride and we waited five minutes to get on

because there was no nobody there.

I wanted to have a cigarette, and it was pouring rain, so I looked up and down and nobody was around. I just walked

over on one of the walkways in Magic Kingdom, not far from the Dumbo ride, in the rain, and I lit up a cigarette.

Within seconds, one of the Disney employees came walking out with one of those little dustpans and brooms that could sweep things up that are on the ground. It was a woman, wearing her Disney rain poncho and she was standing there in the pouring rain next to me. She said “I'm sorry sir but you can't smoke here. I understand how you feel. I’m a smoker too. I just can't let you smoke here.”

There I was, standing there, the rain pouring down on me, the water dripping off my poncho, wet all over my face. I stepped out the cigarette so she could

clean it up with the little dustpan and broom, and she went back to her job cleaning up inside somewhere.

That left me walking off in the rain, trying to find the nearest small outdoor designated smoking area that Disney hid behind rocks, or behind trees, or someplace where the rest of the public wouldn't see this small group of bad people that smoke cigarettes.

 You feel like truly a second-class citizen because you're kind of hidden away from view. I understand now that they don't want kids seeing people smoking cigarettes, and they don't want non-smokers breathing smoke.  I understand

all the reasons for isolating smokers from other Disney guests, so I'm not defending that decision. 

I am glad that I'm not one of those people smoking at Disney World now. 

If you want to learn how to stop smoking at Disney World and Universal Studios,

I think I can help. 

About 15 years ago when I decided to quit smoking, I documented everything I did. At the time I prepared to quit smoking, I documented how I felt at the time, and what I did to quit. I wrote everything down after about how I felt as well.

Now as I'm nearing retirement I decided to take all this information and put it together in a program and make it available to you to help you become an ex-smoker as well. It will cost you less than the price of a carton of cigarettes in many areas of the country. I do believe that it will work for you because it certainly helped me to become an ex-smoker and never look back.

I know it works as I literally bet my life on it!

 So if this sounds like something that might be of interest to you I ask

you to click the link below and learn a little more about my program. 

Imagine - you could be an ex-smoker before you go to Disney World!

I'll see you as the next smoker soon

Learn more NOW by clicking the link below or by visiting 

www.ToStopSmoking.org

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