What Is The Natural Means To Quit Smoking? - "End Smoking 101"

The author 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 nearly on daily basis, but all of the attempts sadly failed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, so she contacted her physician, who registered her in a program and prescribed tablets, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she found was that a severe change of schedule worked excellently in her case. Somewhat humorous came to to a quite serious issue suggests that everyone have to find what works efficiently for them, as well-known "one size fits all" approach never makes everybody satisfied.

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 fun. For a culture that lives on avenues full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's nearly obligatory.

I was 13 when I got addicted on cigarettes, enough to begin budgeting part of my everyday allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outcast, a straight A student, from a rich academic family, I was actually 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 get to that point.

Writer by occupation, smoking was vastly a part of my daily schedule. 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 only 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 undoubted leader in the witch search for smokers, I was diagnosed with asthma.

I can say from that moment on, 15 years before, 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 workplace any more and I had to time my smoking habits according to the office agenda. It was difficult at home because my partner, an American, was a smoker also.

We decided to only smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, as, sadly, it's California, the climate is pleasant year around, so we both ended up only sleeping in the house, while living, eating, having friends over on the back yard terrace. It's amazing with how much yard work you can invent - our postage stamp sized back yard became more like a 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, forever an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, inevitable shivers, unmanageable crying. But I can all the time say it was caused by my divorce drama, not nicotine. Every now and then, during lunch break in the fiscal area, I stop by someone smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so good.

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