Twelve Tips to Quit Smoking

Honestly, it wasn’t as hard as I thought

Sarah Smith
10 min readAug 10, 2021

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I wouldn’t trade my years of chain-smoking while watching German New Wave cinema for anything, but it when it was time to let go, it was time. Photo by Dimitri Bong on Unsplash

Apparently every single stop-smoking article was written by a doctor, a nun, or a bucket of Twinkie filling because they contain absolutely zero in the way of a meaningful, inhabited, been-there set of observations about kicking. I swear, half of these articles are just a list of reasons you shouldn’t have started smoking in the first place, and…

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Sarah Smith

Novelist. Tarotist, poet, lazy Virgo. Nothing is real; magic is real. Writing is a way to see in the dark. sarahelainesmith.com, @braindoggies