[lsee]

The first step to quitting smoking is to find out what to expect while your body is withdrawing from nicotine. There are products available to help you with your cravings, but changing a long-time habit of any kind requires preparation and changing your thoughts and behavior. Get ready, set a date, work your plan...and before you know it, you'll be a non-smoker. You don't have to go it alone. There are many proven methods that work for most people, once they make that mind-change that creates determination to make a life-change.

I'm not a smoker, but lost a much-loved grandfather to smoking-related illness. He was deeply ashamed of his "lack of willpower", not understanding the many factors that were playing into his life-long addiction, including the fact that he'd been smoking since childhood and didn't know how to cope without cigarettes. I wish I could tell him what I've learned since his death. He didn't have to die the way he did and it broke all of our hearts to watch it happen.

I've never been addicted to nicotine, but there have been many other equally addictive attitudes and behaviors I've battled all my life. I applaud your desire to change in this way. Don't spend your whole life "just fixin' to" quit. Make up your mind and make it happen, if that's the secret wish of your heart.

[SheLion]

The reason the Government is working to get us all to quit smoking, is so Big Pharm can get our money for quit smoking aides!

Big Drugs Nicotine War

If you quit, quit on your own. Don't be paying into the coffers of Big Pharm!!