The writer of the article has been a life long smoker from Europe. After immigrating to the US, and being diagnosed with asthma, nearing her middle age, she was trying to quit smoking nearly on everyday basis, but all of the efforts miserably did not succeed. Nicotine gum and patches didn't work for her, therefore she contacted her surgeon, who enrolled her in a program and prescribed pills, but that didn't her her quit smoking either. What she found was that a severe change of routine worked good in her case. Somewhat amusing approach to a very serious issue recommends that everyone have to find what works efficiently for them, as popular "one size fits all" approach never makes everyone contented.

In the first person: I was born 40 something years ago in Europe, with a cigarette in my mouth. My parents smoked, my relatives smoked, my friends smoked. My father is 82 and still a chain smoker. Smoking is an unavoidable part of cultural habits, meeting people, and having excitement. For a culture that lives on lanes full of cafes, smoking is not optional, it's almost compulsory.

I was 13 when I got hooked on cigarettes, enough to begin budgeting part of my daily allowance for cigarettes. Mind you, I wasn't an outcast, a straight A student, from a wealthy academic family, I was really trying to fit in. At that point, and also many years later, trying to stop smoking was not even in the back of my mind. It will take me 30 more years to get to that point.

Novelist by profession, smoking was very much a part of my daily schedule. It was accurately like it used to be in the old black and white movies - me, the typewriter, and the big ashtray with the cigarette butts heaped up high. Soon after I moved to the US, the problems with my smoking ensued. They were not simply of social nature any more; they became a health concern also. Not merely did I move to the Bay Area, California, which was the undisputed leader in the witch hunt on smokers, I was analyzed with asthma.

I may say from that moment on, 15 years before, I was trying to quit smoking on a daily basis. There was by now a drastic change in place for me - I couldn't smoke at my office any more and I had to time my smoking habits according to the office agenda. It was harder at home since my associate, an American, was a smoker as well.

We decided to just smoke outside the home. That didn't work at all, because, sadly, it's California, the weather is pleasing year around, so we both ended up only sleeping in the house, while living, eating, having friends over on the back yard patio. It's astonishing with how much yard work you can spend - our postage stamp sized back yard became more akin to jungle with heirloom tomatoes, tea roses, sweet peas, and citrus trees.

I finally quit smoking cold turkey. Two years afterward, with a new lease on life, I'm proud to say - I haven't had a cigarette since. I understand it very well: once an addict, always an addict and I had my share of night sweats, nightmares, unstoppable shivers, uncontrollable crying. But I can all the time say it was resulted by my divorce drama, not nicotine. Every now and then, during lunch break in the fiscal district, I stop by someone smoking in front of their office building. Second hand smoke still smells so good.

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