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To: LouieFisk

“Best way to go is cold turkey so a person is not dependent on pills, patches, devices, etc.”

I once had a buddy who was a heroin addict. He quit that ‘cold turkey’. It was a brutal, painful experience for him.

He later told me that quitting smoking was ten times harder.

Not everyone has the willpower to just quit.


56 posted on 11/30/2016 11:03:37 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

“He later told me that quitting smoking was ten times harder.
Not everyone has the willpower to just quit.”
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Yup. I think much of that has to do with cigs being an acceptable, normal part of daily life (more so in the past, tho). That is, cigs are easily had, you can pull a cig out of a pack and start smoking in a matter of seconds with no blowback. With H, you have to make a connection, avoid the police, find some place to shoot up and have a kit to do it (or at the very least, a needle). It takes more doing than smoking a cig.
At any rate, cold turkey is worth a try and when a person does succeed, he realizes he had the ability within himself to do it anytime (which is a healthy ego-boost).


58 posted on 11/30/2016 11:31:01 PM PST by LouieFisk
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