Don't Give Up!

“After I quit smoking I used the money that I saved from cigarettes to celebrate my success with friends; next year I will spend the cigarette money I saved to buy goods”, says Captain Nget Ya, who has recently quit smoking during ADRA’s stop smoking class held at the Military Border Head office.

Captain Nget Ya started smoking heavily –consuming one to one and a half packets a day- during the Pol Pot regime. Even though he was a heavy smoker Captain Nget Ya tried to quit smoking many times during the past five years. However he relapsed each time, until he attended the Khmer Quit Now! stop smoking class.

Captain Nget Ya chose some strategies presented in the class to help him quit. He declared to friends and family that he was going to quit smoking; he noted the quit day in his notebook and consistently told others how many days had been free smoke from smoking during the first year.

Captain Nget Ya’s family is happy that there is no more smoke in the house and that their father and husband is now committed to a smoke-free life.