in 1976, I had been smoking around 15 years and smoking around 2-3 packs a day.
I went deer hunting in November for the first time in around 5 year and was winded climbing the hills....
I was too young at 27 to be winded climbing those hills...
I quit then and there....no patch, no gum, no special medicine............it hurt to quit....for weeks, it hurt. then it didn’t. I still craved for years, but not physical, but mental craving....37 years later I still occasionally think about having a cigarette...but don’t.