Have you ever tried to quit smoking?

[kristian]

I used to smoke the herb a few years back. Don't know if you call it the same in the U.S, but it was rocky (resin), and bush. Both same thing, packaged differently. I led a pretty stressful life and it was a culture thing...so indeed was cocaine, but I avoided that, despite people putting it in my pockets on numerous occaisions.

Soon as my baby came along, I quite because I didn't want to be stoned around her.

So quiting herb was a piece of piss for me.

However, what might be useful to you is how I quit smoking.

I had my last smoke on New Year's Eve of 2003 and haven't touched one since. How did I do it? I went cold turkey : the only way to properly beat it.

Get some chewing gum, rent a shit load of movies, and only work if you have to / feel like it. Take a week off if you have to.

I looked at smoking as the way some people diet. They stop eating chocolate bars, but instead have those crappy 28 calories bars. All the diet bars make them want to do is eat the real thing. Same with smoking. Patches, fake cigs, pills, none of it works.

It's old-fashioned, but you basically have to just stop, and tell yourself that the withdrawal symptoms will get better each day.

After 1 week of quiting I was over the main hump, a month later I knew I'd never smoke again.

My advice : remeber that withhdrawal symptoms will diminish day by day, get some gum and movies, and just wait the fucker out.