Never easy and never the right time. But as the quit smoking campaigns say, "never give up giving up". This new year, there's another form of stop smoking aid on the market.
NiQuitinCQ is in lozenge form. There are two strengths. Four-mg-strength lozenges for heavy smokers. (A regular Marlboro cigarette contains 0.9 mg, so one of these tablets is like smoking four fags at regulate blood sugar.
Of course, like kicking any addiction, the key to cracking it is changing your whole perception around being a smoker or non-smoker as well as dealing with physical withdrawal itself. To help with the psychology of giving up, there's always hypotherapy and Dr Allen Carr's famous book Easy Way to Stop Smoking that many successful quitters swear by. And some recommend acupuncture. Exercise too.
Before trying NiQuintinCQ lozenges, consult the pharmacist first and also consider checking with your doctor if you're on treatments.
NiQuitinCQ lozenges, £8.99 for 36; from Boots and other chemists. NicoQuit Support: £12.95 from London's Nutri Centre.
A. Carr: Easy Way to Stop Smoking, ppbk, £5.99 in some sales, or £7.99.