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Same here. 28, and I've been trying to get rid of my cigarette habit for 5 of the 10 years that I've been smoking. I've quite often made it to the 2 month mark, but whenever something bad happens in my life, it's becomes way too tempting to fall back in to old patterns and just have one cigarette. And then another one, and then I might as well buy a pack...

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I quit smoking several times, even went a year without smoking, but eventually relapsed into it every time. What helped me quit for good was snus. It's still nicotine and I'm addicted, but as far as we know it's _a lot_ less dangerous than cigarettes. I guess vaping might do the same but that didn't work for me.

Honestly cigarettes were probably the hardest for me to quit, the only way I finally managed to get beyond that initial climb was a close family member was diagnosed with lung cancer and died shortly after, this was enough of a shock to carry me through the hardest stage.

Yeah, it was the same for my dad; he quit smoking after smoking for 35 years (since his 12th!) after his doctor told him his lung function was dangerously low and he wouldn't last more then 15 years unless he quit.

I am 28 and managed to give up a few months ago during one of the worst periods of my life after reading Alan Carr’s, The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permentantly. Read it.

Nicotine is one of the most physically addictive substances.

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