I’d like to present a different point of view.

I quit smoking 8 years ago, at the age of 55. It was easy, once I really made up - not my MIND, but my HEART. The real decision was what folks call “heart-felt”. It’s not enough to just “think”, that you want to quit, or that you “should” quit.

I realized quite simply, “I don’t want to smoke anymore”. The key for me was, my son was 15 years old, and I felt he needed me around for awhile yet. I knew I could die anytime because of my age, a sedentary lifestyle, and that I had been smoking since I was a kid myself - for over 40 years in fact.

Yet I was able to quit with no problems, no withdrawal, no ill effects at all.

Most of the articles I read, talk about how “addictive” nicotine is, how hard it is to quit, how there are withdrawal symptoms, etc etc.

BS. None of that needs to happen, if you truly resolve that you don’t smoke anymore. There are good aids available that can help a person make this “heartfelt” decision.

Try some of them. Quitting can be a whole lot easier than the nicotine lobby wants you to think.

Elliott

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It’s best to keep busy at that time when I feel no resolve for my mission. A lot of times I journal, or call a friend, anything to keep my mind off of smoking. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that this desire to smoke will ever truly go away, but I’ve been told that it will leave, so I press onward.

I suppose the thing that keeps me the most motivated is my family. My daughter has begun to ask me if I will die from smoking. This really stung me to my core. I’m doing this mostly for her. I want to be a good example and I don’t want her to constantly be worrying that her mother is going to die.

Everything that is said about quitting smoking is so true. It’s extremely hard to do, and if you’ve never smoked then you do not understand what a struggle it is to quit.

We are not just talking about the weak-willed here either. This is really hard to do.

Studies have shown nicotine is as addictive as cocaine, and other highly addictive drugs. I am not surprised by this study. I suppose the only true difference is that smoking and chewing is socially acceptable and even then, it is becoming less and less acceptable in this current society.

Many places are banning smoking altogether, if smoking is allowed, it is in only designated areas and it would not be unlikely to get a dirty look from someone who happened to pass by through a cloud of smoke on their way to the restroom.

Smoking bans are another issue altogether. In several states across the United States you could be fined in for smoking in the car with a child. The law would actually be protecting that child from the dangers of second-hand smoke.

The smoking population is certainly dwindling. Those of us that are left are having a harder time be militant in the face of reality. Reality being that there is really nothing positive about smoking. Not to the smoker or to those around the smoker.

I think it really is a losing battle and maybe we should not be sore losers about the matter.