March 19th, 2010 
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I smoked 14 years, and I am again trying to quit cold turkey. This is the hardest thing in my life. Has anyone quit smoking successfully? How is life now for you, as a Non-Smoker? Need advice! Thank you!
I quit a little under a year ago—unfortunately it was too late for me and I will suffer for it for the next year MAYBE with the 2 terminal illnesses I acquired… I smoked for 35 YEARS and quit cold turkey last November after being told of my illnesses… it was EXTREMELY difficult but I did it… what I did MAY help you… if so, feel free to use my idea… I love oranges so, I went out and got NAVAL ORANGES (the big seedless kind) and whenever I wanted a cigarette, I reached for an orange, peeled it, pulled the pieces apart and ate the orange… I realized it took as much time to peel and eat the orange as it took to smoke a cigarette and as long as my hands and MOUTH were functioning in about the same manner as they would while smoking, I must have tricked my brain into becoming smoke satisfied… I would eat 12 or more oranges a day for the first couple of days and then gradually dropped down to where I stopped HAVING to eat the oranges after a couple of weeks. I now RARELY crave a cigarette but when I DO, the craving never lasts too long…. when driving the car, I would take pre-peeled oranges in a ziploc baggie and reach for them when I felt like smoking—-I was able to quit and did NOT gain any weight as oranges are non-fattening.!!! I just wish I had come up with this idea on how to quit 25 YEARS ago rather then waiting until I was sentenced to death. I hope you're lucky enough to someday you will not need to speak the same article another look Quiting advice-I'm hoping that when you tell this story, you smoke-free and patients FREE
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