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What Is The Natural Method 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 diagnosed with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to stop smoking nearly on daily basis, but all of the attempts unhappily failed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, so she consulted her surgeon, who registered her in a program and prescribed pills, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she discovered was that a severe change of schedule worked good in her case. Somewhat amusing came to to a very serious matter recommends that everyone needs to find what works efficiently for them, as well-known "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 inevitable part of cultural habits, socializing, and having fun. For a culture that lives on avenues full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's almost obligatory.
I was 13 when I got addicted on cigarettes, enough to begin budgeting part of my daily allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outsider, a straight A learner, from a well-to-do academic family, I was actually trying to fit in. At that point, and also 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.
Writer by occupation, smoking was very much a part of my everyday routine. 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 simply of social nature any longer; they became a health concern as well. Not just did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undeniable leader in the witch look for smokers, I was detected with asthma.
I can say from that moment on, 15 years before, I was trying to quit smoking on a daily basis. There was by now a drastic change in place for me - I couldn't smoke at my office any more and I had to time my smoking habits according to the office schedule. It was difficult at home because my colleague, an American, was a smoker also.
We decided to only smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, as, unfortunately, it's California, the weather is pleasing year around, so we both ended up simply sleeping in the house, while living, eating, having friends over on the back yard patio. It's astounding with how much yard work you can invent - our postage stamp sized back yard became more akin 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 since. I know 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 fiscal district, I stop by somebody smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so good.
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