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How An Inveterate Smoker Was Cured Of The Tobacco Habit

How An Inveterate Smoker Was Cured Of The Tobacco Habit image
Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Yes," lie said to the "Tobacco Journal," "I quit smoking uearly a year ago, and haven't even taken a single puíFsince." "It must be considerable oí' a struggle for a man who is in the habit of smoking u good deal," said the man who liever had tried to stop, but was alwaya promising himself that some day he would. "I had smoked for over twenty years," said the man who had quit. "Yes, I know it," returned the man who never had tried. "That's what surprises me in your case. It must have required a good deal of nerve and self-control." "Xot at all ! Merely jijdgment." "Judgment?" "Precisely. It's very simple when yon kuow how." ''Why, I've alvvays understoou that a man went through all kinds of torture and only hung to his determination by the very greatest exliibition of will power." "When he dosen't understaud or grasp tlie proper method, yes," said the man who hsd quit; "butif he exeicises la little judgment and commou-sense it is the easiest thing in the world. Now, I didn't go oí! by myself and make a solemn vow that I never would smoke again and then stop right short oft'." "Limited yourself, I suppose, and graded down ?" "JS'ot a bit of it. That's where all the struggle and the iiglit comes iu. I didn't undertake to put any limit on my smoking and I made it a point for several weeks to keep a box of cigars open ou my desk at home, only - " "Yes." "I let iny wife buy them." "Ah ! I begin to understand." "I gave her the money that I usually spent for cigars' and told lier that she was a better bargain hunter than I, auc would naturally be entitled to anything that she could save out of my cigar money. Of course she was delighted." "That was to be expected." "Three days later 1 was sick, and the smell of cigar smoke soon became nauseating to me. I never could stand poor cigars, you know. I quit smoking from choice Once-a-Week." "I suppose 3'ou know Jinks who lives out in your suburb,'1 said the new acquaintanee pleasantly in an effort to be agreeable. "I know of him," returued the suburbanite eoldly, "but the fact is we don't move in the same set." "No?" "Oh, dear, no. I go home two trains ahead of him at night, and come down one train later in the moniing."

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Ann Arbor Courier