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RE: How I Accidentally Quit Smoking in Two Steps
Sometimes I realise I used to smoke for 14 years. It is a satisfying realisation. Our trick was to move countries and firmly say WE DON'T SMOKE. No talking about it. Just stopped being beholden to the beast. Good on you for figuring out a way to quit. Its an asshole addiction..
Thank you!
I did the math while writing this piece, and was started to realize I've spent more of my adult years as a non-smoker than as a smoker. (Minus my two-years of being smoke-free, I think I clocked about 13 years of smoking, versus 15 smoke-free since 2005.)
I'm very grateful that I was able to pull that off. Unfortunately, I have some old friends who have been smoking since the 1980s(!), and I can see (and hear) the toll it is taking on them, and also know through conversations that they feel almost powerless to quit.