The Best Way To Quit Smoking Is The Natural Way

The writer 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 stop smoking nearly on daily basis, but all of the attempts miserably did not succeed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, so 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 excellently in her case. Somewhat amusing came to to an extremely serious issue recommends that everybody wants 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 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 excitement. For a culture that lives on avenues 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 daily allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outcast, 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.

Novelist by profession, smoking was greatly a part of my everyday schedule. It was exactly 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 ensued. They were not just of social nature any more; they became a health concern too. Not just 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 could say from that moment on, 15 years ago, I was trying to quit smoking on a daily basis. There was by now 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 because my colleague, an American, was a smoker too.

We decided to just smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, since, sadly, it's California, the weather is lovely year around, so we both ended up merely 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 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, always 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 financial district, I stop by somebody smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so good.

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