[CrazyIvan]

Congratulations! Unless you’ve had the habit you don’t know just how hard it can be to quit.

[djf]

Hey, I puffed and puffed and puffed on those damn things for forty years!

Now I have a pack on my coffee table, an opened pack, with two cigarettes in it... crumbly and old, hell, by now they are probably moldy!

But I don’t care!

[HotHunt]

I smoked cigarettes some in college and at the beginning of my military service, just wanting to "be cool" and fit in. But I quit cold turkey one Sunday morning after smoking almost a whole pack of Marlboros (and drinking) the night before at a party. It was nauseating to even look at an ashtray full of cigarette butts or to think about smoking another one. I stopped that day and never smoked again.

That was in 1971. I also quit drinking alcohol shortly after leaving the military a couple of years later. Best thing I ever did for my health.