I just got back from Sidmouth festival where I celebrated a complete year without a cigarette (with Morty with whom I shared my last one) I was on Inhalators (dummies) for nearly a year and am now on gum. I realised that,having smoked since I was 5, I was on a long haul but haven't given in.
Keith Kendrick has a wonderful theory that people have a "Movement Memory" and if you can break that you can kick the habit that goes with it. I think I have overcome the movement memory and now have to kick the adiction to nicotine.
It's been a long haul and there is still distance to go for me but I reckon that the improvement in my singing voice is soooooo worth the struggle.
I want to be able to sing when I'm 80. I've got a chance of that without cigarettes; with them I'd be dead most probably, so the struggle is MOST DEFINITELY WORTH IT!
I went to a hypnotherapist to start the "cure" the best £50 I spent in my life.......
Still an addict but a non smoker
Mary