The Excellent Way To Quit Smoking Is The Natural Way


The writer of the article has been a life long smoker from Europe. After moving to the US, and being detected with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to quit smoking approximately on daily basis, but all of the efforts sadly did not succeed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, hence she consulted her surgeon, who enrolled her in a program and suggested pills, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she found was that a drastic change of routine worked best in her case. Something humorous came to to a very serious issue recommends that everybody needs to get what works best for them, as popular "one size fits all" approach never makes everyone satisfied.

In the first person: I was born 40 something years ago in Europe, with a cigarette in my mouth. My parents smoked, my relatives smoked, my friends smoked. My father is 82 and still a chain smoker. Smoking is an inevitable part of cultural habits, meeting people, and having fun. For a culture that lives on streets full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's almost necessary.

I was 13 when I got hooked on cigarettes, enough to begin budgeting part of my everyday allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outsider, a straight A learner, from a wealthy academic family, I was really trying to fit in. At that point, and also several years later, trying to stop smoking was not even in the back of my mind. It will take me 30 more years to reach to that point.

Novelist by profession, smoking was greatly a part of my daily routine. It was precisely like it used to be in the old black and white movies - me, the typewriter, and the big ashtray with the cigarette butts piled up high. Soon after I moved to the US, the problems with my smoking resulted. They were not just of social nature any more; they became a health concern too. Not merely did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undoubted leader in the witch look for smokers, I was detected with asthma.

I can say from that moment on, 15 years ago, I was trying to quit smoking on an everyday basis. There was by now a drastic change in place for me - I couldn't smoke at my office any more and I had to time my smoking habits according to the office timetable. It was tougher at home because my associate, an American, was a smoker as well.

We decided to only smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, because, unfortunately, it's California, the climate is lovely year around, so we both ended up only sleeping in the house, while living, eating, having friends over on the back yard patio. It's astounding with how much yard work you can invent - our postage stamp sized back yard became more similar to jungle with heirloom tomatoes, tea roses, sweet peas, and citrus trees.

I at last quit smoking cold turkey. Two years later, with a new lease on life, I'm proud to say - I haven't had a cigarette ever since. I understand it very well: once an addict, forever an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, unstoppable shivers, unmanageable crying. But I can all the time say it was resulted by my divorce drama, not nicotine. Every now and then, during lunch break in the fiscal region, I stop by someone smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so nice.

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