what not to say when someone is quitting smoking

I’m going to just skip to the punchline of this story, which is that you don’t say, “Make sure you don’t gain weight now that you’re not smoking, because that would CLEARLY be REALLY bad.” Don’t worry, no one said this to me recently.  There is probably no one in my life at this point [...]

Not smoking

I’ve tried to quit smoking before.  Depending on your definition, I have quit smoking before several times.  Once I stopped for over a year.  But clearly, at some point I started again.  A week ago, I began the process of quitting again.  I started wearing the nicotine patch (and I’ve discovered that my right leg [...]