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writes:I am fifteen years old now, and in Grade Nine.I've been smoking since Grade Seven, and I was twelve years old. Over the course of the past couple years, I've tried my best to quit smoking but I always fall back into the same routines, and lately, I feel like I will be stuck smoking for the rest of my life - without choice.I know it sounds silly, and everyone just says, 'if you want to quit smoking - just stop' and to me, it's not that easy, alot of my friends have attempted to quit smoking but have not found it easy. I am afraid that if I quit, I will gain alot of weight, and I have worked hard to loose the amount of weight that I have.On average, I smoke about ten cigarettes a day, sometimes more - sometimes less, depends on the access of the cigarettes. I had a cold since November, that seems to just stick, I have always got tonsillitis and bronchitis at the same time in the past two months, and sometimes I get pains in my chest.I need help and advice, to keep me on the right track. Maybe some tips, that will make it easierall help is appreciated.thank you! Reply to this Question
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reader, GrimmReality  +, writes (7 May 2009):
 Like you I started around the same age as you, and then smoked until the age of 18. Then I quit for 6 years. I was at a party one night and having a beer when I grabbed a smoke and washed those 6 years away. I have tried myself since at least 10 times to quit, I used patches(and then I'd start smoking with the damn things on..lol), gum, pretty much everything short of hypnotism.Never been able to quit for more than 10 days at a stretch in all these years. I'm 44 now. Please do everything in your power. If it means chewing Hard Candy, getting tons of exercise, or what ever , just try it.Actually I think that since I just gave that advice, that it would be hypocritical of me to give that line to you if I wasn't willing to try it. So you know what? I think I will try to quit smoking this evening.Thanks for the question. You gave me an incentive to stop myself.Let me know how you are feeling when you decide to try quitting again.
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reader, anonymous, writes (7 May 2009): I was you, once. I started around the same time, grade 8 maybe, which would have been about 1976. Peer pressure, trying to fit in, whatever. The habit took, and here we are now, a whole lot of years later. Just lighting one now, as it happens.
I'm helping folk in the generation ahead of me, guys who are in the 60s (where I'm in my 40s). They've had to quit 'cause otherwise their oxygen tanks will explode.
I tried to quit in high school, and was such a bear that people begged me to start again.
Guess what? It doesn't get easier. Quit now, go through the pain, and get it over with. The longer you wait, the harder it gets. And eventually you're really hooped. In high school I could run a mile (not well, not quickly, but I could at least do it). Now? I can do maybe four flights of stairs, slowly. And it's worse all the time.
Quit and get it over with.
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