Community Experience · Baidu Tieba (Quit Smoking bar)
Bought the Whole Book Set, Quit for a Month, Quit for Two Hours
At 38 with 18 years of smoking and a pack and a half a day, this member had tried several times — longest a month, shortest two hours — and concluded the failures came from not truly understanding what smoking is. January 3, 2018, 9 AM was the new start.
Experience snapshot
- Quit method
- Reading-based program (Allen Carr)
- Years smoking
- 18 years
- Cigarettes per day
- About 1.5 packs a day
- Quit attempt number
- Several (longest 1 month, shortest 2 hours)
- Age group
- 30s
- Gender
- Not reported
Reported outcome
Not reported beyond the start.
What can be learned
The person's own diagnosis of past failures: quitting while still looking for excuses to smoke is a setup for relapse.
Evidence status
This is a single community report (community-report). It describes one person's experience. It does not constitute medical advice or scientific evidence.
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