Ethan

My Story of Quitting Smoking. I smoked for 56 years and 3 months, and have now stopped.

It’s not that I hadn’t tried to quit before. Once it was with certain inhaled substances (about 30 years ago), and another time with a well-known program that prides itself on high success rates.

This current attempt came from within me, quietly and alone.

A message about the SoloUno app popped up online. I downloaded it and dove into the challenge.

I’m  writing this, about a month after starting the process, and after 8 days without smoking. I can say that, according to online definitions, the physical withdrawal has ended. It seems that I am now a “former smoker” — meaning the need to guard against falling back into smoking. I will be able to comment on this success in the future.

The SoloUno app helped with the methodology of logging and tracking.It is a conceptual framework that enables those who have decided to quit to actually do so