I can't stop.

[NiteRunner81]

I think this is just another one of those voodoo subjects. Except for some, its personal. For haas, as a smoker, its personal, for some others, like myself, or others who have been negatively affected by smoking, its personal. We all have to admit that in such cases, its hard to step back and look at the other person. Studies have shown that smoking is the hardest addiction to beat. We "non-smoking" camp just expect all smokers to stop with it being so hard to stop.

[11_Panama_]

Yes, as Nite stated, smoking is one of the hardest things to quit. In my younger days....I partied and I used a variety of "party favors". I just about tried everything with the exeption of meth and heroin (horror stories about them kept me scared of them). Nothing "hooked" me like cigarettes. Quitting "party favors" was very easy for me, and I never had a second thought about it. But cigarettes...I tried medications to quit smoking and they didn't work. I'm a pretty strong willed person..I accomplish just about everything I set my mind to, but cigarettes are kicking my ass.
I had to pull a Bueno Player and bring this post back. Why? Because I decided to quit smoking. As a er of fact....it's been 2 weeks now since I've had a cigarette. I tried Chantix (again), but this time I decided to "make it work"...I'm using the Jedi mindtrick on myself...I am, really. I keep telling myself that I don't want to smoke...that each day without a cigarette is a day that I'm winning, that I"m in control...not the cigarette. It's working, I have no cravings...the last time that I tried (with Chantix), I kept smoking even though I didn't have cravings then either...but the "habit" to smoke when I was bored still had me. This time, I decided not to let "the habit" take over. I'm actually surprised how easy it was to just quit once I decided that enough is enough. My conviction is rock solid, and I almost feel like a dumb ass for not really "trying" to honestly quit. I relied way too much on the medicine (Chantix), while I kept smoking thinking that the medicine will "hit me anyday now" and that will be the end of smoking. It didn't quite work like that I guess, because I never stopped.

[WD-40]

Well, my Dad started smoking at 17 (back in the late 1940's) and continued till around age 50-55. He quit, and then gained 100 pounds. Finally, started smoking again, but never lost the weight. Had a cancerous spot on his lung found at the same time he developed a brain tumor. He died with a year of it being found before he was 70. Smoking?...probably.