philthymike wrote on 05/09/20 at 08:26:40:Several weeks ago my basement flooded during an intense weather event. I spent much of the following week emptying the room and cleaning causing me to breathe alot of damp moldy air consequently contracting bronchitis. During my sickness I got nicotine gum to reduce my smoking because I was coughing so much.
Then I noticed that my senses of smell and taste returned after a couple weeks and that's encouraged me to finally just quit smoking for once and for all.
Currently I'm down to roughly 4 cigarettes per day plus the gum in between.
Problem spots now are morning coffee and after work beer. Can't chew the gum with either and it's habitual for me to smoke during these activities.
How do I break these rituals?
Any substitutes for either coffee or beer I can try?
What have other quitters tried?
Hello Mike, I drop in only every once in a while, so I only read pages 1 and 4 of this thread...
I used to be a pipe smoker but converted to cigars some 15:20 years ago.
I'd never smoke a cigarette as the paper and filter both do their share of ruining the natural flavor of tobacco...
...plus cigarette tobacco has additives which make sure the cig never goes out on its own, and those are the true poison!
Try a "Toscano" cigar, they are the type smoked by Clint Eastwood in his famous "horseman with no name" films by Sergio Leone.
They are italian and should come now rather cheap.
They are some 8" long and you clip them in two halves before lighting the fat end, smoke from the tapered end.
Their characteristic is they are "dry cigars" as opposed to the "humid cigars" they make in the Caribbean.
This means:
1. they are sharper, a bit like comparing espresso coffee to a white latte
2. you can put them out, scrape the ashes away, and relight them another time.
They also work wonderfully as "stay awake" tricks to avoid falling drowsy during long, boring drives, a LOT better than loud music or whatever.
I'm sure you can find some at a local tobacco specialist
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