Question

Brittany has been smoking tobacco cigarettes for a number of years. She no longer finds smoking pleasurable, and would like to quit, but finds the withdrawal symptoms too overwhelming. She smokes because a cigarette takes her cravings away. For Brittany, the act of smoking a cigarette is best thought of as

Answer 1

Answer:

Brittany will just have to tough it out.

Explanation:

I was addicted to cigarettes as a teenager and as a young man. I quit smoking cold turkey in 1990 because I decided that the price of a pack of cigs was too high. Yes, it's difficult. Quitting smoking is agonizingly uncomfortable. It's three weeks of Hell followed by three months of Purgatory. But if I can do it, so can anyone else. People fail because they decide that their excuses for failure are acceptable. "I'm under stress just now," is an excuse that I often hear. People who make excuses will just keep on failing until they learn that there is no such thing as an acceptable excuse. That's all there is to it.