(August 13, 2015 at 11:32 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: It depends. When I quit a few years back, I quit by delaying my first cigarette of the day -- moving it from 8AM to 10 and doing that for a week or so. The next week, I wouldn't allow myself to smoke until noon, the next week two pm, and so on. After a couple of months, I was lighting up my first smoke at ten pm, and at that point it was just as easy to go to sleep without lighting up at all.
I've fallen off the wagon here recently, but will be going back to smoke-free soon, and that's how I will do it again.
Different folks having different ways of dealing with addiction withdrawal.
Yeah, but with nicotine you're only dealing with physical addiction as opposed to the mental and physical addiction you get with drugs that get you high, which was mainly what I was referring to. I was going to mention that nicotine would be an exception just due to the success of the patches and gum, but I was suddenly in a hurry.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
