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Originally Posted by August
The gum or the patch only address the physical cravings which are far easier to beat than the psychological cravings. Unfortunately i'm finding out those can last for years.
IMO the number one anti-smoking move you can make is to make a firm and final commitment to quitting.
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I gave up about 12 years ago & can say that the cravings are gone totally now, but had persisted for quite a few years. I started when I was 17 gave up when I was 44, one of the main things to do is disassociate smoking from various things like coffee, I always lit up when I reached for a cup of coffee, so when I first tried my attempt failed, so I went a month having coffee without smoking before giving it up, it worked! that and patches.
I used to have a bad cough & gasped a lot, I went to the doctor & he told me I was in the early stages of COPD, if I didn't give up soon I would die a slow death gasping for air, that was probably one of the reasons I was able to quit as well!!
