Comment by 3pt14159
12 years ago
I found quitting smoking very easy. I felt weird for the first day or two and then I just wasn't a smoker. I thought it would be hard based on what everyone told me, but it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be.
From what I've read plus anecdotal evidence (people I know with radically different experiences quitting smoking), there's a large genetic component to how addicted you get, and how easy it is to quit.
Unfortunately most people have an extremely hard time (and most of the attempts to quit that I've observed have involved a lot of misery followed by a return to smoking).