'Evening types' also more likely than morning people to take up the habit in the first place, study shows
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from:msnbc.comNight owls have a harder time quitting smoking
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Makes sense. I know lots of people who are night owls who smoke.
At first I thought they were experimenting on birds & smoking.
I really wish non-smokers (aka - the author of this story) would realize that just thinking about smoking makes you want to light up. Thanks MSNBC. I'm off to light up. Just watch next time you're in a bar that allows smoking. If you see someone on TV light up, look around real quick and notice how many people are triggered to do so. This is especially true in anti-smoking commercials and they're very counterproductive.
And quitting isn't so hard. I quit every night.
mipak...spent 30 years between two jobs, rotating from days to nights. I concur. As I speak, I attempt to say goodbye to smokes. Nasty, expensive, and just plain stupid. The American Indian surely got even with us, introducing tobacco. 40 years, having delved into every fashionable drug, booze, you name it......damn cigarettes are by far the toughest monkey to knock off my back.
I look forward to kicking the habit but with great trepidation. The next two weeks is going to be a b##ch! Never one to ask for prayers, but this one might warrant it.
Good luck!!!! Here's both prayers and crossed fingers for you from a current smoker.
Makes sense. I'm a morning person and I quit smoking easily. My good friend that is a night person (easily sleeps past 9:00 on the weekends when I'm up before 6:00, is having a terrible time quitting.
This story is baloney.
I am a night owl and it only took me 38 years to quit.
I am a "nighttime type", who's whole family is/was nighttime people. My Dad worked 2nd shift, all his life. I cannot seem to quit either. For many years I have wished I was a morning person, now with this report, I REALLY wish I was a morning person. I wish I could quit for good!
The article was interesting up until the last sentence. Then it was just funny! If you are -- or have ever been -- a night owl, you know that changing your sleeping pattern is just as difficult as quitting smoking. You get it turned around, only to have it turn back again within a few days.
Nicotine addiction is hard enough. You early birds have no idea how hard it is to chance from a night owl to an early bird. I am not a a person who stays out all night. I lie in bed trying to go to sleep and thinking about my cigarette. I have been quit almost two years and the desire is still there and no changes in sleep patterns have occured either.