My quitting history.

To Start with,

Smoking will not empower you to do things and make you interesting, a man to follow you are not. Quitting cigarettes and other tobacco habits will give you a longer life and give you a higher quality of life; My life over years of smoking was daring, and that because the fear it was killing me caused the habit to gain more control over me. My person, that I presented, was an avant garde individual different from every other individual. That was also something I lost when I quit smoking.
See, I was afraid of a smoking death and I was afraid of the pain of quitting. My mouth burned and  my chest would contort. I have a breathing problem anyway. I wake from a nightmare and cannot breathe, and this disease I thought was relieved by smoking. It isn't and passes without a cigarette.
So, smoking is additave to life's problems, the bed catches on fire and the paint turns yellow as does your hair and moustaches. Smoking colored my life so I quit it finally with patches. Then it was easier, to my mind I no longer cashed the checques tobacco would write, I am further away today than I ever was when I smoked but temptation is dealt throughout life and I am not tempted enough to smoke that first one, which still starts the habit over again as if I hadn't even quit.
I have a year about as a non smoker and I have quit successfully twice or three times. I played at the part of a casual smoker but if I ever smoked it soon was not in my control to quit. I preach to never start as what should be taught children. Ass hindsight will be, having the habit means giving over ones life to a chemical patch or gum and replacement foods like twinkies and sweets to stop that contortion and  burning desire.

War,
I, A quitter.