# I'm quitting smoking, too.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-quitting-smoking-too/606130>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 14, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-quitting-smoking-too/606130 "2011-12-14T03:43:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-quitting-smoking-too/606130/181 "2022-01-05T21:03:12Z")

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> [@RadicalPi](#):
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> I admittedly don’t hang out here as much as I used to. There’s no particular reason, though, it just kind of happened.

Yep, know how that works. Time flies and life happens.

> [@RadicalPi](#):
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> That said, I thought it important to come back to this thread, since it is something that I’ve thought about now and again over the past ten years, and it is my official record of quitting smoking. It was good to read over my own thoughts and to recall just how hard it was and to really see how hard it isn’t right now.

I think you are right. Seeing what you were actually thinking years ago compared to now can be an eye opener.

> [@RadicalPi](#):
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> And I offer these musings, in part, in support of others who are thinking about quitting to describe what they might experience in the short and long term.

Every little bit of encouragement helps when people are trying to quit. I’ll look forward to your anniversary posts over the next ten years.

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