Sounds like you really get a Dual Addiction, both physically and mentally, when you smoke. I guess that makes it even harder to quit.
Mediachick seems to have a good grasp of this from personal experience like many of you probably have. Her explanation hit home with me cause my parents were smokers.
My dad wanted to quit after retiring from the Army where he went from cigarettes to cigars then to smoking a pipe then to totally quiting. I guess that's one way to approach it to gradually stop over a period of time. Thank goodness it worked cause he's in perfect health and will probably live to be 100.
I think Livedose said it best.."I used to smoke 2 packs a day and then one day
decided to stop and that was it. Never looked back."
I think that the ONLY way that you can quit is ONLY if you WANT TO and that is something that my wife and son will need to do.
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