Good luck, of course, if today, you are trying to quit as part of Stoptober, the NHS campaign to get people to stub out this month.
With a national election approaching next fall, the effort to stub out the N.P.D. reeks of politics.
By blunting the effect of price increases, it may also affect attempts to stub out smoking.
Zwelish crushed his cigarette under his running shoe, the way he wanted to stub out Blondy's line of defense.
Gone, too, are the ashtrays in the desks, where diplomats used to stub out their cigarettes and cigars.
Along with Australia, the UK can probably claim to be the toughest nation in the world when it comes to trying to stub out smoking.
In addition, when using the Kerrods pack, participants were more likely to stub out a cigarette, although only significantly so during the weekend.
Some go from lighting up to stubbing out in under three minutes; others take two or three times as long.
They may not have started the race of life this way, but a full-time job that entails not only the performance of repetitive actions, but intense concentration on them, tends to stub out whatever spark of originality, or individuality, they may once have possessed.
Fuel started to pour out.
