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(Silently raises hand) me! I had one on the way to the hospital and one on the way home. When my surgeon asked me if I smoked, I lied. :-(. My plan was to quit while I'm the hospital. I was there 3 days so I thought it would be easier. Nope! I really want to quit but damn it's hard!

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Your surgeon must have known. That smell is impossible to mask.

I feel you, though. My husband is a former smoker. His last quitting foray was really successful, but he has been addicted to nicotine gum for 15 years.

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Check out an ebook at Amazon called Stop smoking the easy way. Several guys from work read this 100 page book and when finished stop smoking without any problems. Also read the reviews. Over 800 mostly 5 star.

The book tells you not to quit until finished reading. The book reprograms your brain while you read it.

I used it to stop using smokeless tobacco after 30 years of using. Stopped 4 weeks ago just like I never used tobacco before. Haven't missed it since.

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I concur with that book.

I am using an ecig it has nicotine but none of the other chemicals. I am decreasing my nicotine.

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Thanks for the tip. I'm going to load that onto my iPad. Did it help either of you if you were smokers?

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I wasn't a smoker, I chewed smokeless tobacco. Regardless both are nicotine addiction. Two guys I work with turned me onto the book because it was easy for them to stop smoking by reading the book.

I read it in about a day, threw away my can and it was the easiest thing I ever did.

We program ourselves to panic when we don't have one readily available. We program ourselves to believe that we need the nicotine to deal with stress but really it's not the nicotine, its stepping away and focusing on something else while we take a few deep breaths that help us deal with stress.

Anyway, the book does nothing more than reprograms you by repetitiveness and by the time your finished reading the book you throw away the things and don't look back.

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