Cognitive Quit Smoking

Is there a difference in the way men and women approach quitting?
My husband quit 5 years and 11 months ago, and says he just “quit.”
A male co-worker at work said the same thing. He just “quit” like it
was as easy as saying you will never enter a certain restaurant
because of a bad meal, or never eating another peanut butter cookie
because you got sick after eating them.
Women seem to come at it from a much more personal stance. My
husband thinks there are now more women smoking than men.
But, I went back to post # 4450 (looking for different topics that
haven’t come up in my short quit career) and found a guy named “Phil”
having a dickens of a time over his emotional attachments to smoking
and trying to figure out how to rationalize all this cognitive
quitting. He’s a very clever and witty writer. I recommend reading
some of his stuff just for the entertainment value.
And yet, the group is founded and continues to be moderated by a

male, so I’m curious. Who has a harder time quitting? Men or women?
My boss (a man) says hes going to quit next week while he’s on
vacation. (I’ve been sharing a lot of what I’ve learned here and
elsewhere about quitting with him. I’m really glad he’s quitting
because he was a MAJOR trigger. We used to have a lot of “smoking
meetings” and got a lot of things decided during those little trips
to the smoker’s patio.) Anyway, I digress….
I’m asking because I want to know if my struggle is so emotionally
enormous because of my gender or my temperment.

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