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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 analyzed with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to quit smoking almost on everyday basis, but all of the attempts unhappily failed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, so she contacted her surgeon, who joined her in a program and suggested medications, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she found was that a drastic change of schedule worked good in her case. Somewhat funny came to to an extremely serious matter suggests that everybody have to get what works best for them, as well-known "one size fits all" approach never makes everybody satisfied.
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 lanes full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's nearly obligatory.
I was 13 when I got hooked on cigarettes, enough to begin budgeting part of my everyday allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outsider, a straight A learner, from a rich academic family, I was actually trying to fit in. At that point, and even many years later, trying to stop 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 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 longer; they became a health concern too. Not only did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undeniable leader in the witch look for smokers, I was diagnosed with asthma.
I could say from that moment on, 15 years ago, 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 schedule. It was tougher at home since my associate, an American, was a smoker as well.
We decided to only smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, since, sadly, it's California, the weather is pleasant year around, so we both finished up simply sleeping in the house, while living, eating, having friends over on the back yard patio. 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 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 ever since. I know it very well: once an addict, forever an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, unstoppable shivers, uncontrollable crying. But I can always say it was caused by my divorce drama, not nicotine. Every now and then, during lunch break in the fiscal region, I stop by somebody smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so nice.
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