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Originally Posted by Larryp
I gave it up 35 years ago. I was smoking 60/day and just went cold turkey-it was hard for a couple of weeks, but after that, I never missed it.
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I'm with Laurie, I gave up 20+ years ago and to be honest it wasn't as hard as people like to make out - for me anyway.
I think you have to genuinely want to stop. For me, the plastic nicorette cigarettes really helped me break the habit, but after one pack of them lasting a week, I realised they were going to just as expensive as cigarettes and just did away with the lot of them.
In no time at all it was very easy to just keep going.
The health benefits alone are enormous. It's sad the number of oldies I see pushing tanks of oxygen around with them to keep them breathing after emphysema (presumably) has set in. It's seeing those poor souls that continually re-emphasises to me the vast benefits of staying off the evil weed
Just give it all up Robin and don't make it a huge deal in your head. It's just a small thing. More importantly you KNOW in your heart it's the right thing to do; unless you want to be one of those pushing the oxygen around