>>> I quit for 7 months one time just because of the cost factor by laying the half empty pack on the coffee table and when cost was no longer a factor I picked up the half empty pack and resumed enjoying smoking. It only bothered me for about 3 days when I first quit.
My father, who eventually died from (among other complications) emphesyma, quit smoking about 5 years before he died. He told me that he went into the PX one day to buy cigarettes. He always bought them by the case of cartons. I'm not sure how many cigarettes that works out to be, but it's probably about 20 cartons of cigarettes. The price of cigarettes had gone up considerably since the last time he had bought them, which may have been a long time since he buys such large quantities, and when he saw how much it was going to cost him he decided that this would be his last case of cartons. He milked that case of cartons for over a year, and when he was down to the final pack he milked it for a week. And he cerimoniously smoked the last cigarette and never had another.
Just like an old Leatherneck to pull off the band-aid real slow and painful like. :)