Welcome to the Quit Smoking — No BS! site. I’m Eldon Sarte, online publisher, writer and formerly a 25-year pack-a-day smoker. Marlboro Reds were my sticks for most of those years; at the end, the final 2 or 3 years, I’d started “rolling my own,” using even stronger cigarette tobacco from cans and pouches — Bugler, Gauloises and Gitanes (both French). Didn’t need to do any actual rolling — I had a little plastic device that shoved the tobacco into empty filtered paper tubes. Those sure were the days…

If you suspect that I really enjoyed smoking cigarettes, miss them, and if they weren’t dangerous I’d go right back to using them again…  you betcha!

Which is what makes this site a bit different: I’m no militant anti-smoking activist. Assuming you’re an adult, I figure you can make up your own mind and do whatever you want to do. If that happens to be to continue smoking cigarettes, knock yourself out. It’s your call. Better than even odds, though, that you’re at least thinking about quitting, which is why you’re here reading this.

So why this site? Well, fact is, I didn’t find the quitting experience all that difficult. Period. I didn’t say it was instant, but neither did it take all that long. Now if someone like me who by no stretch of the imagination can be considered a light short-term smoker; who fondly remembers the habit and would gladly pick it up again if the planets line up a certain way; and who had absolutely no personal health issues pressuring me to quit… if someone like me can quit without much difficulty, maybe learning how I did it can be helpful to your efforts as well, don’t you think?

Besides, I figure a straight talk, no agenda site may do better with the communication thing. As a smoker, I find many of the other “quit smoking” sites too preachy, alarmist, scary, emo, touchy-feely, militant… just plain uncomfortable and a turn-off. Here, I’ll just tell you what I did and why I think it worked (for years… I didn’t just quit yesterday!), and maybe, just maybe, you’ll find it helpful to your objective.

So, let’s get to it then, shall we? Click on the How I Quit Smoking option in the menu above and follow the links to take you step-by-step through the relatively simple process I followed to quit smoking — along with my accompanying commentary so you can better understand the why’s and hows, and so ultimately, it’ll help you make the decisions that’s right for you! Happy quitting…