The Great American Smokeout was held yesterday, November 19, 2009, wherein smokers join together to quit smoking or using tobacco products of any kind at least for the one day. Funny thing is, I already quit smoking and didn’t even know about the “smokeout” until this morning when I heard about it online.
I’ve lost track of how many times I have tried to quit smoking, but nothing seemed to stick. The various stop smoking aids like Chantix pills scare the beejeebers out of me, and the nicotine patch was never something I wanted to try either. Why? Because trying to quit smoking with the “help” of products that have nicotine in them doesn’t make any sense to me. Nicotine addiction is what keeps smokers smoking, so it makes no sense to me to attempt to quit smoking and rid myself of nicodine addiction by continuing to take nicotine into my body.
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