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What Is The Natural Means To Discontinue Smoking? - "Quit Smoking 101"
The writer of the article has been a life long smoker from Europe. After moving to the US, and being analyzed with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to quit smoking approximately on daily basis, but all of the attempts miserably failed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, therefore she consulted her surgeon, who registered her in a program and recommended pills, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she discovered was that a severe change of schedule worked good in her case. Somewhat amusing approach to a quite serious matter recommends that everybody wants to find what works efficiently for them, as well-known "one size fits all" approach never makes everybody happy.
In the first person: I was born 40 something years before 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 lanes full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's nearly 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 well-to-do academic family, I was really trying to fit in. At that point, and even many years later, trying to quit smoking was not even in the back of my mind. It will take me 30 more years to get to that point.
Novelist by profession, smoking was very much a part of my daily schedule. It was accurately 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 arised. They were not just of social nature any more; they became a health concern as well. Not merely did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undisputed leader in the witch search for smokers, I was detected with asthma.
I can say from that moment on, 15 years ago, I was trying to quit smoking on a daily basis. There was already 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 agenda. It was harder at home as my associate, an American, was a smoker too.
We decided to just smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, as, unfortunately, it's California, the climate is pleasing 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 amazing with how much yard work you can spend - our postage stamp sized back yard became more similar to jungle with heirloom tomatoes, tea roses, sweet peas, and citrus trees.
I finally 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, always an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, inevitable shivers, unmanageable crying. But I can always say it was resulted by my divorce drama, not nicotine. Every now and then, during lunch break in the fiscal area, I stop by somebody smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so good.
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