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Six weeks and counting
I read once that it takes six weeks to truly break any habit. If that's the case, then we're good to go - six weeks ago today we both gave up cigarettes.
Both of us had less than a pack a day habit, so could have been worse, but highly addicted nonetheless. We had quit before, for her when she was pregnant, for him less than a month one time after suffering through a nasty respiratory infection. Interspersed over the years were dozens of half-hearted attempts that usually lasted a matter of hours since deep down we weren't really serious about it to begin with.
This time though, it seems different, we really have kicked the habit I think, something I wasn't sure we could ever do. I am not so naive to think I'm in such total control that I'll never have another one. Give me the right situation and if someone lights up and offers, I may join in for one (secret admission, have done that twice). But that was it. Didn't want any more then, the next day, the day after that, etc.
We're not militant anti-smokers now any more than we were militant smokers then. We always tried to be polite about it when we did, and don't judge others who do now. It's just one of those things in your life you never thought you could make happen even though you hoped you could, only to wake up one day and thing wow, I think we finally did it!
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