My Story

I am an over 60 year old Engineer and the founder of DE-light & delight. I want to share with you my journey in life with cigarettes.

It is a journey that I always wish never took place but which never the less took place, courtesy of misinformation through adverts, seeking recognition and approval, peer pressure and the ever present need to be part of the fast lane of life, which in the case of smoking turned out to be a fast lane to misery and self destruction.

My first experience with smoking was at 13 years old in the early Nineteen Sixties. I was driven to experiment with smoking by a deep seated urge to be like the “heroes” I saw in cowboy movies that were being screened at the time.

This urge was strengthened by seeing the other role models at that time such as teachers, police officers and administrators smoking. I did not enjoy the experience but I naively attributed the adverse reaction of my body to smoking to my being immature thereby strengthening my resolve to be a man like the grownups and the bigger boys who could do it.

Sounds Familiar? This urge to be what would today be referred as “being cool” kept the desire to smoke alive into high school, Advanced level, University and finally into working life in the Mid-nineteen seventies when I could smoke as much as I desired since I could afford it. I continued smoking but at 34 years old I started experiencing adverse effects of smoking and tried to quit using my will and failed several times.

I then tried acupuncture but it did not work either. I struggled to stop smoking using all manner of advocated methods without any success. Meanwhile adverse medical conditions Doctors attributed to smoking were becoming evident by the day.

At 55 years old, the adverse effects of smoking were beginning to take a toll on my health with conditions such as Hypertension, chest pains, and numbness in my fingers.

One morning waking up, I realized something was very wrong with me. I recognized the symptoms of hypertension. A visit to my personal doctor confirmed my worst fear. I was not going to be around for my children and grandchildren if I continued smoking. Again, I attempted to stop smoking using the will and again failed.

Meanwhile the adverse effects of smoking were getting worse by the day. I finally decided to capture every thought, internal dialogue, emotion and desires within my being whenever the craving to smoke reared its ugly head. Armed with the misconceptions that drove me to light up, it finally dawned upon me that the act of smoking is an act of obeying and living a lie.

Join me now and ride on De-light and Delight to chase smoking out of your life.

I DID IT IN NOVEMBER 2008 (I guess that’s why I am still around today) 2024 ! AND NEVER WENT BACK, SO CAN YOU.