[JimVT]

I tried to quit for 40 years.

Butts were 10 cents a pack on Okinawa and in Tokyo and I'd get a carton of Camels and a carton of Pall Malls for the month.

Finally, I got a solid mindset to quit and tried acupuncture (electronic) at a cost of $40 for the chiropractor-acupuncturist.

I left his office 10 years ago and have never smoked since.

Let me modify that statement.

If I'm out playing some rip-off tickets and have a couple of martinis, I can smoke a couple of cigs and not get re-hooked.

For those who want to quit I suggest: 1. Keep trying...one day it will click; 2. Try acupuncture with a mindset to quit...it will work for many and; 3. Remember what it cost you to smoke a pack when you started vs what you are paying today.

[HairOfTheDog]

2. Try acupuncture with a mindset to quit...it will work for many and

HaHaHa!

If I try to quit smoking, let me tell you!- the person who tries to stick me with pins to get me to relax is the first person I would deck!

[Just another Joe]

All any strong willed person needs is the desire.
Without that it doesn't matter WHAT else you try, it just won't work.

[Max McGarrity]

For those who want to quit I suggest: 1. Keep trying...one day it will click; 2. Try acupuncture with a mindset to quit...it will work for many and; 3. Remember what it cost you to smoke a pack when you started vs what you are paying today.

When the desire to quit becomes stronger than the desire to smoke, then and only then will the smoker quit smoking. And he'll quit without any other aid or assistance, just as millions of smokers have quit before him. (Let's see: The earliest price I can remember is 23 cents a pack and at the time I was earning $1 an hour; now I pay nearly 80 cents and make considerably more than that even though I'm retired. I can stand it.)