Seven years ago last Christmas Eve I smoked my last cigarette. Glad I did. The cost. The smell. All the things others have mentioned. I lost my brother to cancer of the esphogas (sp) caused by smoking and my dad due to a heart attack. Kinda hope maybe that same fate isn't in store for me ... at least at their ages ... dad was just about 65 and my brother had just turned 65 when they died.

I hope you can quit, silentsoul. Wouldn't preach to anyone and know lots of folks who do smoke ... but I no longer see what attraction I ever felt for the stuff and I smoked for about 34 years.

Good luck.