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Good luck with the no smoking Joe.
I managed to give up 15 years ago and I still maintain its one of the wisest things I have ever done. I was a student and had a really bad cold so was off smoking for a day or so anyway. I went to the doctors to get a sick note so I wouldn't have to do my essay ( as most lazy student fuckers do ) and in the waiting room was a copy of this Readers Digest book on how to give up smoking. Cant remember what it said but it was along the lines of viewing yourself as a non smoker and that you have never smoked and changing your whole mindset. It really hit me and I never smoked a cigarette again. It helped that I was smoking about 5-10 joints a day back then, but after a few months the nicotine cravings had completely gone and that was it. I could never smoke a cigarette again now. Even though if I smoke a joint it has tobacco in it, the whole mindset of smoking is gone and I don't view it as smoking and I have no more physical or social addiction to cigarettes or nicotine - if you know what I mean