I don't generally like to play along with willful ignorance, but it should be fairly obvious that trying to quit smoking is indeed difficult for many people, particularly heavy or long-term smokers.
As I said in my earlier post, if quitting smoking is difficult, there is probably a problem with your approach. I smoked for 9 years. That's not that long compared to a lot of people, but its long enough to develop a lot of psychological associations which can make quitting more difficult. For probably 3 or 4 of those years, I was "trying" to quit. It was really hard, but that's because I was doing it wrong. I quit 10 days ago. The first three days sucked, but I kept reminding myself it was temporary and that it would go away, and to be totally honest, it was easy. I'm not going to tell you there haven't been moments where its been hard, but overall it has been very easy. A year ago I would have told you that quitting smoking was really hard to do. I was wrong. I was doing it wrong. If anyone is trying to quit smoking and is having a hard time, post here or PM me, I'd be happy to share the book that helped me with you. There's a link to it somewhere on this thread.
But yeah, if quitting smoking is hard, it's hard because you're making it hard for yourself. It doesn't have to be hard. I was a heavy smoker (close to 2 packs/day for the last few years), but I abruptly stopped and lo and behold I did not die, my head did not explode, and hey, I feel pretty great. This whole deal where I wake up at 5AM every day kind of sucks ***, but I'm hoping it's temporary.
I'll say it again, just to reiterate. If you're having a hard time quitting smoking, you're doing it wrong. Examine your approach and modify what isn't working. IME and YMMV of course, but that was certainly not the lamest thing you've ever read on talkbass. There are much more deserving candidates for that title. You know there are.
DAMNIT.
