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

 

 

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 efforts miserably did not succeed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, therefore she consulted her doctor, who enrolled her in a program and suggested pills, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she discovered was that a drastic change of routine worked good in her case. Somewhat amusing approach to an extremely serious issue suggests that everybody wants to find what works greatly for them, as popular "one size fits all" approach never makes everyone 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 unavoidable 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 compulsory.

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 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.

Novelist by occupation, smoking was greatly 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 simply of social nature any more; they became a health concern too. Not merely did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undeniable leader in the witch search for smokers, I was diagnosed with asthma.

I could say from that moment on, 15 years ago, I was trying to quit smoking on an everyday basis. There was by now 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 harder at home because my associate, an American, was a smoker as well.

We decided to merely smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, since, unfortunately, it's California, the climate is pleasing 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 astounding 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 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 since. I know it very well: once an addict, always an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, inevitable shivers, uncontrollable 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 financial district, I stop by somebody smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so good.