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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
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9 min readDec 16, 2020
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…