The Excellent Way To Quit Smoking Is The Natural Way

The author of the article has been a life long smoker from Europe. After immigrating to the US, and being diagnosed with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to quit smoking almost on everyday basis, but all of the attempts unhappily did not succeed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, so she consulted her physician, who enrolled her in a program and prescribed medications, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she found was that a drastic change of schedule worked excellently in her case. Somewhat humorous approach to a very serious issue suggests that everyone wants to get what works greatly for them, as popular "one size fits all" approach never makes everybody happy.

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 unavoidable part of cultural habits, socializing, and having excitement. For a culture that lives on avenues full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's nearly necessary.

I was 13 when I got hooked on cigarettes, enough to start budgeting part of my daily allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outcast, a straight A student, from a well-to-do academic family, I was really trying to fit in. At that point, and even several years later, trying to stop smoking was not even in the back of my mind. It will take me 30 more years to get to that point.

Writer by profession, smoking was very much a part of my daily routine. 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 resulted. They were not just of social nature any more; they became a health concern as well. Not only did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undisputed leader in the witch hunt on smokers, I was diagnosed with asthma.

I may 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 workplace any more and I had to time my smoking habits according to the office schedule. It was harder at home since my partner, an American, was a smoker as well.

We decided to merely smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, since, unfortunately, it's California, the weather is pleasant 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 lastly quit smoking cold turkey. Two years afterward, with a new lease on life, I'm proud to say - I haven't had a cigarette since. I know it very well: once an addict, always an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, unstoppable shivers, uncontrollable crying. But I can always say it was resulted by my divorce drama, not nicotine. Every now and then, during lunch break in the monetary area, I stop by someone smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so good.

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