Quitting Smoking

[Fire Me Boy!]

My wife keeps saying she's going to quit... blames her habit on an oral fixation. I've offered to give her something to suck on ANY TIME she wants.

In all seriousness, I'm done arguing with her about her smoking... I know she won't quit until she's ready to quit. Hopefully that sooner than later. I used to smoke quite a bit, but I've always been strange in my "quitting." I, too, like to smoke -- it's not about addiction, and the reason I can say that is used to I would smoke a pack a day for a few months, then quit outright for a few months, no problems whatsoever. None. Zip. Then, six months or a year later, I'd decide to start again. This last time around, I got bronchitis in January and decided that was a good time to quit again (since I wouldn't have one while I was sick, anyway). I haven't even contemplated having one since then. And summer's always been a deterrant for me -- I don't like inhaling hot air. (I'm full enough as it is).

I consider myself lucky in that regard -- no withdrawal symptoms, never a need to smoke, or mood changes when I do/don't have one... just the taste and ritual involved.