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How I Actually Quit Smoking in 2020

In a year loaded with loss, I scored one massive win: I finally said goodbye to cigarettes

John Gorman
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readDec 16, 2020

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Many cigarettes lined up against pink background.
Photo: Yulia Reznikov/Getty Images

As if Connecticut wasn’t awful enough, it will forever be home to my first cigarette. A Kamel — with a K! — Red Light on the evening of July 4, 2001. I was 18, fresh out of transfer orientation at the…

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John Gorman
Human Parts

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