(20-07-2023, 07:44 PM)Olive Wrote: Lilith, I have a similar history. Tried a few times to give up when I was living in a communal house with several other smokers, we used to cut cigarettes in half to share... Then decades later decided to quit properly, read the Allan Carr book and followed his instructions, have never smoked again and after about a week never even wanted to.
I read that as well & it helped. I was thinking of giving up & had heard of his book & when one morning there was a box of books outside one of the local church community centres & the Alan Carr book was in it, I decided it was fate at work, took it home & after much anguish, finally succeeded.
Yep, I think it isn't a good idea trying to stop when everyone around you is still smoking, just too difficult - if only we'd known then how bad it was for our health we might have all managed to at least try, but big tobacco didn't see fit to share what they knew, the bastards.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)