58-year-old Aussie curbs “horrendous” 27-year smoking addiction with these simple steps
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Queensland, Australian man who claimed he smoked up to 100 cigarettes a day “nonstop” for 27 years has opened up about just how exactly he kicked the “filthy” addiction. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">58-year-old Walter Humphreys admitted to the </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7101949/Die-hard-smoker-100-day-cigarette-habit-QUITS-puffing-27-years-heres-how.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Mail</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> he was a “walking disaster” before he quit his drug addiction. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Townsville local explained he would puff on a cigarette from the moment he woke up at 5am until 10pm, every day. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was one after the other, all day and all night.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I had nicotine stains all over me fingers, me bed. I was just a wreck.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “horrifying” addiction began for Mr Humphrey’s when he was just 13 and his stepbrother and mates peer-pressured him into taking his first puff. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bad habit soured into a full-blown addiction when the 58-year-old landed himself in jail in 1990. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His addiction did not waver when battling with leukemia and several bouts of chemotherapy seven years ago. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The turning point for Mr Humphreys began two years ago when he was diagnosed with chronic lung cancer which is when the 58-year-old decided to make the most of his “second chance” at life. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Walter managed to cut down 100 cigarettes per day to 80, then to 60, 40, 20 and then zero with the help of Queensland’s Quitline. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He revealed the hardest part was slashing his addiction from 100 smokes a day to 80. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Your lungs are so used to copping a beating, and the cravings were more strong,” he said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I was craving (so bad), I was chewing my fingers, my fingernails - I just couldn't keep busy enough.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mr Humpreys biggest tips to those struggling with a smoking addiction is to think about anything other than cigarettes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you think about it, you're gone,” he said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Go and do something, anything - watch TV, have a shower - keep busy and don't think about it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the former smoking addict has completely cut cigarettes from his life, he confirmed “everyone relapses, we’re not perfect… I’m trying my best.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Before you know it, you're walking down the street and going, 'I can smell the fresh air, and smell the ocean' - I couldn't do that before..</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If I can help just one person to quit the habit then it's worth doing this story.”</span></p>
