The author of the article has been a life long smoker from Europe. After moving to the US, and being analyzed with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to stop smoking almost on everyday basis, but all of the attempts miserably did not succeed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, hence she consulted her surgeon, who registered her in a program and suggested medications, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she found was that a drastic change of routine worked good in her case. Something humorous came to to an extremely serious matter suggests that everyone needs to find what works efficiently for them, as well-known "one size fits all" approach never makes everybody contented.

In the first person: I was born 40 something years ago in Europe, with a cigarette in my mouth. My parents smoked, my relatives smoked, my friends smoked. My father is 82 and still a chain smoker. Smoking is an necessary part of cultural habits, socializing, and having excitement. For a culture that lives on streets full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's almost compulsory.

I was 13 when I got addicted on cigarettes, enough to start budgeting part of my everyday allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outcast, a straight A learner, from a well-to-do academic family, I was really trying to fit in. At that point, and even many years later, trying to stop smoking was not even in the back of my mind. It will take me 30 more years to reach to that point.

Writer by occupation, smoking was greatly a part of my everyday routine. It was accurately like it used to be in the old black and white movies - me, the typewriter, and the big ashtray with the cigarette butts piled up high. Soon after I moved to the US, the problems with my smoking ensued. They were not simply of social nature any longer; they became a health concern as well. Not merely did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undeniable leader in the witch search for smokers, I was diagnosed with asthma.

I may say from that moment on, 15 years ago, I was trying to quit smoking on a daily basis. There was by now a severe change in place for me - I couldn't smoke at my workplace any more and I had to time my smoking habits according to the office agenda. It was difficult at home as my partner, an American, was a smoker as well.

We decided to only smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, because, sadly, it's California, the climate is pleasant year around, so we both finished up merely sleeping in the house, while living, eating, having friends over on the back yard terrace. It's amazing with how much yard work you can spend - our postage stamp sized back yard became more like a jungle with heirloom tomatoes, tea roses, sweet peas, and citrus trees.

I finally quit smoking cold turkey. Two years afterward, with a new lease on life, I'm proud to say - I haven't had a cigarette ever since. I know it very well: once an addict, forever an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, unstoppable shivers, unmanageable crying. But I can always say it was resulted by my divorce drama, not nicotine. Every now and then, during lunch break in the financial district, I stop by someone smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so nice.

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