# Quitting Smoking--Patches? Pills? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2009, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quitting-smoking-patches-pills/494605 "2009-04-28T12:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quitting-smoking-patches-pills/494605/61 "2009-05-01T15:19:26Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I have freely admitted that I think I’ll have the occasional smoke in the future–but I’m not _planning_ on it. However, I am aware that sometimes, as it is most easily put, shit happens. If I happen to step in it, I’d like to have a cigarette without berating myself for days on end. If I have more than one, \*then \*I can hate myself. > > It’s been just over twelve hours, and I’m doing okay. Admittedly, I was sleeping for six of them, but I’ve made it almost all the way through the morning. Normally, I’d have had at least six cigarettes by this point in the day. Just in case something goes completely haywire during work, I _do_ have the last of the last pack in my car–four cigarettes that I’m hoping I can stay away from until they taste so bad I can’t even think of smoking them. You will know you have really quit when you get rid of the “emergency cigarettes” and all of the smoking infrastructure - the tin can on the balcony used as an ashtray, the lighters, that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quitting-smoking-patches-pills/494605/62 "2009-05-01T17:58:34Z")
Stick with it!!! You can do it!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quitting-smoking-patches-pills/494605.md?page=3)