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My boyfriend needs help to stop smoking - Advice?
My boyfriend has smoked for many years, recently he was smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day (1 pack). Suddenly overnight he decided he was tired of the cough and just the general effect it had on his body and, went (semi) cold turkey. That was about a week ago. Each day he's had maybe 1-3 cigarettes, but now he says he feels the craving a lot more than in the beginning. It's not so much the addiction but also the fact that it's a ritual. Like when he's finished a job, he'll think "aaah now I can sit and have a ciggie". And it seems to happen a lot.
Has anyone got ideas or advice on what he could do to distract himself from this habit? Last week he was also ill with a cold and says at that time it was easy because he really didn't want one when he felt unwell. So we need a substitute/distraction for smoking or he might not make it. suggestions?
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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