From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Bud Frede wrote:   
   > It's possible to quit, but you have to really want to quit and keep   
   > at it. I tried quitting many times and then finally it worked.   
      
   Funny how that works.  I smoked for over 3 decades, from junior high and   
   never 'tried' to quit.  For a trivial reason a decade or two back, I   
   decided to just 'lay off' for a few days (as opposed to 'deciding' to   
   quit)  and some unexpected 'results' or events caused/motivated me to   
   'persist' in that layoff indefinitely and I never smoked again.   
      
   I used little 'tricks' I had heard about in stifling the 'urge' to   
   smoke, which went on for some weeks or even months, but it wasn't   
   actually difficult for me.   
      
   I think it is easier if you don't do it at all, rather than cutting down   
   or 'trying to quit' and deciding it is too much trouble right now or   
   some such rationalization.   
      
   I think the nicotine relationship/craving is *just* one thing, and the   
   'behavioral' habit is another.  Smoking involves some ritualism, some   
   'breaks', some social aspects that we are accustomed.   
      
   Depending on where and how you live today, smoking makes one a pariah.   
   In my earlier days, 'all of us' smoked everywhere; airplanes, offices,   
   restaurants.  Nowadays we have communities and locations where it isn't   
   even 'legal' to smoke outside.  That would cramp one's smoking 'style'.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)