Differences

   Many of us have tried to quit smoking more than once and in more than one 'way'. We've paid for patches and gum and smoking cessation programs. We've tried acupuncture, hypnotism, meditation, and medication. There have been prescription and over the counter and a parade of gimmicks and products that promised effortless and painless results in '10 days or your money back'.

   In our quest to remove smoking from our lives, many of us have exhausted every reasonable, and some not so reasonable, avenue we could find. While almost all of these avenues can be helpful adjuncts to a successful quit, it seems that it's our shifts in perspective, in how we view a cigarette as the 'cure for what ails', that consistently have the greatest effect.

   The articles in this section look at the shift from thinking of smoking as one nicotine fix after another to seeing smoking as a pattern of behavior that isn't necessarily about nicotine addiction as much as it's about simple responses to the many moments that make up a day.