Agreed, and sooner than non-smokers, but I would like to be able to go out and do things without gaining a bunch of weight.
The way I quit my two pack a day habit was one winter I got a cold and I kept smoking anyway. I forced myself to smoke no matter how much it hurt or how much I didn’t want to. Did that for a couple of weeks, then just quit smoking entirely and I finally got over the cold. Never really felt like smoking much after that.