The author of the article has been a life long smoker from Europe. After immigrating to the US, and being detected with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to quit smoking almost on daily basis, but all of the attempts sadly failed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, therefore she consulted her surgeon, who joined her in a program and recommended medications, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she discovered was that a drastic change of routine worked best in her case. Something humorous approach to a quite serious issue suggests that everybody wants to find what works best for them, as well-known "one size fits all" approach never makes everybody contented.

In the first person: I was born 40 something years before in Europe, with a cigarette in my mouth. My parents smoked, my relatives smoked, my friends smoked. My father is 82 and still a chain smoker. Smoking is an inevitable part of cultural habits, socializing, and having fun. For a culture that lives on avenues full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's almost obligatory.

I was 13 when I got addicted on cigarettes, enough to start budgeting part of my daily allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outsider, a straight A student, from a well-to-do academic family, I was actually trying to fit in. At that point, and even many years later, trying to quit smoking was not even in the back of my mind. It will take me 30 more years to reach to that point.

Writer by profession, smoking was vastly a part of my daily routine. It was exactly like it used to be in the old black and white movies - me, the typewriter, and the big ashtray with the cigarette butts piled up high. Soon after I moved to the US, the problems with my smoking arised. They were not only of social nature any longer; they became a health concern as well. Not merely did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undoubted leader in the witch look for smokers, I was diagnosed with asthma.

I can say from that moment on, 15 years ago, I was trying to quit smoking on a daily basis. There was already a severe change in place for me - I couldn't smoke at my workplace any more and I had to time my smoking habits according to the office agenda. It was tougher at home because my partner, an American, was a smoker too.

We decided to merely smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, as, alas, it's California, the climate is pleasant year around, so we both ended up simply sleeping in the house, while living, eating, having friends over on the back yard patio. It's amazing with how much yard work you can invent - our postage stamp sized back yard became more similar to jungle with heirloom tomatoes, tea roses, sweet peas, and citrus trees.

I at last quit smoking cold turkey. Two years later, with a new lease on life, I'm proud to say - I haven't had a cigarette ever since. I know it very well: once an addict, always an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, inevitable shivers, uncontrollable crying. But I can always say it was caused by my divorce drama, not nicotine. Every now and then, during lunch break in the monetary region, I stop by somebody smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so nice.

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