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I disagree.

I quit smoking easily last year on January 1st. I decided to quit a month prior to Christmas, but I was afraid of the jolliness of the season making me slip. I assume it is the same for exercise, portion control, and alcohol consumption moderation.

Sometimes it is nice to have a clean break in a month where nobody bothers you and where you haven't had a routine for a couple of weeks.

Although I really wish the gym wouldn't pack up so much.

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Care to give pointers/mindset/whatever helped, for quitting smoking?

Smoke two packs of Marlboro reds in a 1 hour timespan.

Yep that should do it.

Downvoted? Are you kidding me? Does anyone have a sense of humor anymore?

Honestly it was when someone (the CEO of 500px, actually) told me that quitting smoking was easy. You feel weird for the first two days and after that its only a 5 min period here or there that gets you tempted.

He was totally, 100% right. At least for me. It was a mindset change from something being impossibly hard to something being temporary and really pretty easy. During the first two days I had an inhaler that I used a total of 3 times splitting 1.5 cigarettes worth of nicotine then I just put it down and didn't come back.

The current gen of e-cigs are amazing. They're not better than quitting full-stop, but they are a great, easy step in that direction.

Alan Carr's Easy Way to Quit smoking for me. 10 months now and it really was quit easy after being on Marlboro Reds for 10 years. Started reading it after a thread on Reddit with no real intention to quit, smoked throughout (as he recommends) then was convinced to stop when I finished the book. It's a little cheesy/self-helpy but it's short and worth giving a shot and taking seriously. I immediately felt free when I stubbed my last cig.

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