02-11-2004, 02:23 PM
The easiest way is to slowly cut down your nicotine intake. Going cold turkey is going to make you feel horrible, making it all the more difficult to not pick up another cigarette and light it. Patches, gum, and inhalers all give you nicotine in regulated amounts, so if you drop one cig from your daily schedual every week, you won't feel as bad. Cold turkey would get you over the addiction faster, but it's pretty much the most painful thing you can do.
Smoking shouldn't be illegal, especially in a country that makes you pay for health care. However, places where the government pays for it, they should make a licence that you have to have to buy smokes, that way people who smoke have a waiver to sign, declaring they acknowledge the risks and must pay for their own treatment. That fixes a large amount of drain on the system, and would allow other things to be legalized if need be. Of course, it would only apply to people born after a certain date, so people brought up when smoking was thought to be perfectly alright would be exempt.
Smoking shouldn't be illegal, especially in a country that makes you pay for health care. However, places where the government pays for it, they should make a licence that you have to have to buy smokes, that way people who smoke have a waiver to sign, declaring they acknowledge the risks and must pay for their own treatment. That fixes a large amount of drain on the system, and would allow other things to be legalized if need be. Of course, it would only apply to people born after a certain date, so people brought up when smoking was thought to be perfectly alright would be exempt.