Our Daily Bill: Quitting

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At intervals, for periods of weeks and even of months, he gave [smoking] up; he would, for instance, at the beginning of Lent fling his pipe away in Crippetts woods, but always remembered when Lent was over where to find it.

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George Seaver, Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, pg 30

Wilson successfully quit smoking in 1900, though briefly took it up again while doing his grouse studies between Antarctic expeditions.