Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 11, 2013

If she hasn’t broken anything else she probably wants to often.

Smoking is a very hard habit to break.

Tough it out Mrs. Olsen!

You can make it.

Think of it as a Raise!

Wow! We’ve really seen the sympathetic side of Mrs. O this summer! Who knew?

It gets easier after a couple of weeks. After a couple of months you should be home free.

I quit in mid-October, 1976. I felt so awful that I made a deal with myself that I would just suck it up for a year and then, if I was still craving them, I could start smoking again (and tell everyone to get off my case.) Success : D

I quit on the 23rd of Dec. 1999 at 11:30 am. A special gift to myself and later to my grandson. Never missed the @#^% things.

My sister and her husband went cold turkey the day our dad was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Nicotine is the most addictive substance on Earth. Congratulations to everyone here who has quit smoking. I worked with a man once who had quit, spent a couple years without in fact. We had a deadline once and were working late very late. He stole a cigarette from someone and became hooked again. I hope that never happens to any of you.

Sadly, I’m right there with you.

I believe that people who can’t follow their own advice shouldn’t be allowed to give advice… funny how nobody listens to them anyhow.

It’s never easy, but it does get tolerable. I quit smoking in 1980. I still miss them from time to time.

I quit 30 years ago. Here’s how: I tapered off until I was down to just 2 cigs a day. Then, when I smoked them I did it laying down on my stomach across my bed (head and arms over the edge). To me, this made the cigarette taste so awful, and smoking this way was such a hassle, it was an easy step to just go cold turkey.Cheers! and success to you all.

Maybe some entrepreneur should sell casts instead of nicotine patches.

Has anybody tried the e-cigs?

Younger women can just blame withdrawal on PMS:)

I’m grateful I never started. I understand that this is a very hard thing to quit.

@ILove Joe "Has anybody tried the e-cigs?’

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My sister loves them. She never missed smoking from day 1 of “vaping,” as it’s called in the subculture. (Honestly, there’s a whole community thing that forms up around the stores that sell the vaporizers and the stuff you put into them. Nouveau head shops!) We went into an Office Depot store once, and she spotted an e-cig in the pocket of a nattily dressed gentleman, and they talked seemingly for hours. Another guy overheard the conversation and joined them, and it almost became a party. (Except that the guys had to get back to work.) People who “vape” are called “vapers.” I typed that last sentence in defiance of gocomics, whose built-in spell-check repeatedly changed the words in quote marks to “tape” and “vapors”!

@Lynnskay

Your time frame is a lot like my sister’s, and the results, too. I don’t know much about the particulars (mg, etc.), as I’m not a vaper myself, but as to the smell…my sister adds extracts or essences or something to her gizmos, so that sometimes there’s a gentle whiff of butter pecan, or it might be jasmine, or raspberry, or some other nice aroma. Another plus is that the gizmos themselves (sorry, can’t recall what she calls hers) are really pretty. As you say, no butts.

When I quit I had dreams about smoking every night for almost a year. When i started dreaming about sex again I knew I was cured!

My mom gave both her parents an ultimatum. Quit smoking, or they’ll never see their grandsons. They quit cold turkey. My aunts, faced with the same dilemma, come round way less often.