Well Shirley,
Me response was honest, if couched in mock abusive tones. You stop by stopping. It's like the whole diet industry thing, there's no beg secret, you just eat better/less and/or excersize more, simple. However, there's lots of money to be made from gum, patches, inhalers and such, which allow you to remain addicted while not smoking. Granted they can be useful to ween yourself off the habit part, but at the end of the day, no willpower = no quit.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:31, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

you can and do break a physical nicotine addiction in just under 3 days
the rest is psychological, and therefore arguably gum and that shit makes it worse as it extends the physical addiction.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:39, Reply)

Indeed.
It can be a lesser evil han smoking, as it doesn't give you cancer, but dressing it up in all this arguably makes it feel like quitting is a bigger deal than it is.

1) stop smoking
2) sufer for a few days
3) deal with it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:45, Reply)