The writer of the article has been a life long smoker from Europe. After immigrating to the US, and being detected with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to quit smoking nearly on daily basis, but all of the efforts unhappily failed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, so she contacted her surgeon, who joined her in a program and prescribed pills, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she discovered was that a severe change of schedule worked excellently in her case. Somewhat funny approach to a quite serious issue recommends that everybody have to get what works greatly for them, as popular "one size fits all" approach never makes everyone contented.

In the first person: I was born 40 something years before 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 unavoidable part of cultural habits, meeting people, and having fun. For a culture that lives on lanes full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's nearly necessary.

I was 13 when I got hooked on cigarettes, enough to begin budgeting part of my daily allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outsider, a straight A student, from a wealthy academic family, I was actually trying to fit in. At that point, and also several 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.

Novelist by profession, smoking was vastly a part of my daily 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 resulted. They were not just of social nature any more; they became a health concern too. Not merely did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undoubted leader in the witch hunt on smokers, I was analyzed with asthma.

I can say from that moment on, 15 years before, I was trying to quit smoking on an everyday basis. There was already a drastic change in place for me - I couldn't smoke at my office any more and I had to time my smoking habits according to the office agenda. It was tougher at home since my associate, an American, was a smoker too.

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

I lastly 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 realize it very well: once an addict, always an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, inevitable shivers, uncontrollable 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 fiscal area, I stop by somebody smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so good.

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