The Last One

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[00:12.93]Lesson 78
[00:15.92]The last one?
[00:18.97]After reading an article entitled 'Cigarette Smoking and Your Health'
[00:24.73]I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves.
[00:28.49]I smoked with concentration and pleasure
[00:32.08]as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette.
[00:36.37]For a whole week I did not smoke at all a
[00:39.85]and during this time my wife suffered terribly
[00:44.73]I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking:
[00:49.61]a bad temper and an enormous appetite.
[00:54.08]My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars.
[00:58.84]They made no effort to hide their amusement
[01:01.72]whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket.
[01:06.28]After seven days of this I went to a party.
[01:10.67]Everybody around me was smoking and I felt extremely uncomfortable.
[01:16.87]When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette,
[01:21.09]it was more than I could bear.
[01:23.74]I took one guiltily, lit it and smoked with satisfaction.
[01:29.18]My wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more.
[01:34.26]Anyway,as Brian pointed out,
[01:37.30]it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking.
[01:41.17]He himself has done it lots of times!
 

For how long did the writer give up smoking