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Thursday, June 19, 2003
 
Quitting Smoking

Vince is quitting smoking. He has a post up about how hard it is and how things are going after week 1. I started to leave a comment over there but A) it started to drag out, and B) I thought it might possibly be a new way af looking at things if you are a smoker.

Not smoking is easy.

Really, it is.

Except for the cravings.

Those are hard. Really hard!

But if you can get past the craving you're fine.

I just kept telling myself, "It'll pass. It'll pass."

And eventually it would pass. At first it took ten or fifteen minutes, and the cravings would come back often. But the length and intensity of the cravings started to wane fairly quickly. And later, the cravings came less often.

It's four and a half years later for me, and the cravings still come every once in a while. But you get used to delaying the gratification of the cigarette, and pretty soon you're disgusted by the thought of the physical craving.

And then you're a non-smoker.