The author of the article has been a life long smoker from Europe. After immigrating to the US, and being diagnosed with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to stop smoking nearly on daily basis, but all of the efforts miserably failed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, therefore she consulted her physician, who enrolled her in a program and suggested pills, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she discovered was that a severe change of routine worked excellently in her case. Somewhat humorous approach to a very serious matter recommends that everybody wants to find what works greatly for them, as popular "one size fits all" approach never makes everybody happy.

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, meeting people, and having fun. For a culture that lives on avenues full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's almost necessary.

I was 13 when I got hooked on cigarettes, enough to start budgeting part of my daily allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outcast, a straight A learner, from a wealthy academic family, I was actually trying to fit in. At that point, and also many years later, trying to quit smoking was not even in the back of my mind. It will take me 30 more years to get to that point.

Writer by profession, smoking was very much a part of my everyday schedule. It was exactly like it used to be in the old black and white movies - me, the typewriter, and the big ashtray with the cigarette butts heaped up high. Soon after I moved to the US, the problems with my smoking ensued. They were not just of social nature any more; they became a health concern as well. Not only did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undisputed leader in the witch search for smokers, I was analyzed with asthma.

I can say from that moment on, 15 years before, I was trying to quit smoking on a daily basis. There was already a drastic 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 schedule. It was harder at home as my associate, an American, was a smoker too.

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

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

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