Smoke Lighter

The Technique...

Welcome. My name is Mike Sargent. After 34 years as a cigarette addict, I have now been smoke-free for over 2 years, and I'm confident I will be able to remain a non-smoker.

I quit by using a combination of methods. If you want, you can visit my  How I Quit  page to read the complete details about the methods I used.

In a nutshell, before trying AGAIN to quit "Cold Turkey", I invested a few months in minimizing my addiction by weaning myself off of the stronger cigarettes. I did that by using the data available here to back myself off of them in such tiny steps that withdrawal symptoms were unnoticable, if present at all.

When my quit date arrived, I was addicted to one of the lightest cigarettes on the market. This not only made it much easier to quit, but also has made it easy to stay away for good. I simply had a much smaller addiction to fight. And when you're fighting a monster like nicotine, cutting it to a fraction of it's original size before you step up to kill it off entirely can make all the difference in the world. It certainly did for me.

When I first decided to quit, I was smoking about a pack and a half a day of Doral Light 100's Soft Pack. The data shows them to have 0.7 mg of Nicotine, and 10 mg of "Tar". Multiply that by 30 cigarettes each day, and you get 21 mg of Nicotine and 300 mg of "Tar".

Six months later, I was smoking Now Filter King Soft Pack, which have 0.2 mg of Nicotine and 1 mg of "Tar". Multiply THAT by 30 cigarettes each day, and you get 6 mg of Nicotine and 30 mg of "Tar".

So when it was time to take the plunge, it was AT LEAST THREE AND A HALF TIMES EASIER than it would have been had I done it while still smoking the Dorals!

I know, everybody says the same thing:

    "If you smoke lighter cigarettes, you will just smoke more to make up for it."

In fact, if done right, your smoking habits will change very little during the transition. And even if you smoke a few more, ... Take another look at the numbers. With the Nows that I was smoking at the end, I would have had to smoke 4 AND A HALF PACKS A DAY to replace the Nicotine and 10 PACKS A DAY to replace the "Tar". There aren't that many hours in a day.

To tell the whole truth, before I applied the techniques outlined here, I used some other tricks for cutting the number of cigarettes I smoked each day to about a third of my original number. (The details are available on my  How I Quit  page). So my personal nicotine monster was OVER TEN TIMES SMALLER than it had been the first couple of times I had tried to quit. That's why it worked this time.

Wouldn't you like it if quitting could be FIVE OR TEN TIMES EASIER than it is now? ... It can. And it's easier to do than you think.

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