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From the people I've known since teenage years I think the proportion of those who've managed to give up smoking cigarettes (for EVER) is less than the proportion who've managed to give up heroin.

On the surface that's a scary (to me, anyway) result.

I've never smoked (or jacked-up..) but it sure seems a tough call to give up smoking !

I gave up twenty years ago.


My heaviest use was twenty a day during the week (in the days when you could smoke in the office) and forty a day at weekends.


I can't really offer advice as I stopped whilst I was travelling in Indonesia, I was ill one day and after that I just didn't want to smoke for some reason.


Since then, I've occasionally cadged a ciggie from someone else, and three times I've actually bought a pack of ten and chainsmoked them, but apart from that I'm not tempted even when drinking.


I do think it helps that my current partner and most of my friends don't smoke, though, plus the no-smoking law in pubs etc. means I'm less likely to smell cigarette smoke.

"From the people I've known since teenage years I think the proportion of those who've managed to give up smoking cigarettes (for EVER) is less than the proportion who've managed to give up heroin."


I'd say 95% of my friends and acquaintances who have smoked in the past have now given up. Am talking about people in their 30s and 40s here. I can't say if I/they have given up for EVER because, thankfully, we are not dead yet.


It really is not that difficult to give up smoking, come on. It is difficult not to succumb to temptation and have a fag with a drink when you're a little bit pissed, tis all.

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