Unusua give-uo

it was unusual when I finally gave up. 

I was walking up the stairs to my workplace one morning, which meant must have a cigarette. 

That morning i reached for my pocket. No cigarettes, then I realised I had not had a cigarette for a few weeks. 

I stopped for a moment and this thought jumped on me :  

“Oh well, I wanted to give up cigarettes anyway, so it looks like cigarettes gave ME up..  Great  news I thought, I’ll take THAT. “ 

I want to live, and I don't want to die young and in pain.”so, thanks!  

I had been going to therapists. Even hypnotists  and more. None really helped.  Important to the story is that I was near 40. So last chance time. 

I think the change happened subconsciously: the idea became sufficiently convincing that the old behaviour simply lost its place. 

I  hadn't successfully fought cigarettes. I had stopped being interested in them.