Quitting smoking isn't easy - but it is simple.
Just stop smoking. Don't attempt to quit, or try to quit - just quit.
Decide to put it behind you, never to be resumed. Replace the habit of smoking with the habit of not smoking.
Three things help. The urge to smoke is not constant - a desire comes, then it passes. Each urge comes a little later than the previous one. And, each urge is a little less strong than the one before. Don't picture the rest of your life without smoking, just deal with one urge at a time.
When I was 29, I confronted the mountain of medical evidence that linked smoking with many health problems and decided I could no longer include it in my life and consider myself an intelligent person.
Since then the evidence against tobacco use has continued to grow almost exponentially.
I picked a day two weeks away and told everyone it was the date on which I was going to quit. I stopped my 50-cigarettes-a-day habit and have never looked back. This year I will turn 79. I know that if I had not quit smoking I wouldn't be here today to write this letter.
Barry Donnelly, Ottawa
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