What Is The Natural Way To Discontinue Smoking? - "Quit Smoking 101"

The author of the article has been a life long smoker from Europe. After immigrating to the US, and being detected with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to stop smoking nearly on everyday basis, but all of the attempts sadly failed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, therefore she consulted her physician, who joined 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 schedule worked best in her case. Something funny approach to a quite serious matter recommends that everyone needs to get what works best 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 necessary part of cultural habits, meeting people, and having excitement. For a culture that lives on streets full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's nearly obligatory.

I was 13 when I got addicted on cigarettes, enough to start budgeting part of my daily 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 even several years later, trying to quit smoking was not even in the back of my mind. It will take me 30 more years to reach to that point.

Writer by profession, smoking was vastly a part of my everyday 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 only of social nature any longer; they became a health concern too. Not only did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undoubted leader in the witch search for smokers, I was analyzed with asthma.

I may say from that moment on, 15 years ago, I was trying to quit smoking on an everyday basis. There was already a severe 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 tougher at home as my associate, an American, was a smoker as well.

We decided to only smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, as, alas, it's California, the climate is lovely year around, so we both ended up simply sleeping in the house, while living, eating, having friends over on the back yard terrace. It's astonishing with how much yard work you can spend - our postage stamp sized back yard became more like a 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 realize 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 all the time say it was resulted by my divorce drama, not nicotine. Every now and then, during lunch break in the financial region, I stop by somebody smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so nice.

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