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Originally Posted by geedub
Were you ever a cigarette smoker? Took me numerous tries before I quit for good. You're beating a series of mental addictions more than anything.. You light up habitually before/after/during so many things. It's a lot more complex than beating a physical addiction to nicotine.
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I sure was. 2 packs a day throughout my late teens and all of my twenties. I quit for almost 10 years and started again foolishly. Fortunately I quit a year after and have been good since.
It's not easy. I "quit" probably 1000's of times. Every time I ran out of cigarettes, every time I went to bed. And you're totally right it's a huge mental game. Your brain starts convincing you that you DO want to smoke. It's not easy.
It is, however, simple. You just stop doing it. You don't get sick and die. You don't have a mental lapse and kill somebody. What you have is a slight feeling of something "missing" for about 72 hours, and then after that it's purely mental. Hard, but still very simple; Just don't smoke.
I would recommend the book "The Easy Way To Quit Smoking" by Allen Carr. It didn't make me quit, but it did give me a whole different perspective on smoking after I had already quit. It's an interesting read and worth the $10 or whatever it is in Ebook.