I love smoking, let me put that out there first... However, by most people I knows standards I'm very much on the lighter side of it (my girlfriend might disagree)... Anyway, I always told myself that the day my smoking affects my riding is when I quit... So you need to ask yourself how much your riding means to you? Do you want to just bop around town or hit some good double digit rides twice a week? I know where we live it can be hard as so many people smoke here (and drink too among other things) but it can be done... One trick I found was to share my cigs freely... Thus making its an even more expensive habit... Also allow yourself some wiggle room, if not its way harder and you are more likely to fail. Giving yourself that wiggle room makes you able to stick with it. If Im gonna see you at the track Id like it to be a test of legs not who is or is not a smoker Try it for the summer see how you feel and maybe in the fall you go back maybe you dont, I can say after the first week or 2 a cig tastes pretty funky once you have one again. Hell I had one tonight but Im not beating myself up over it, its been like 2 weeks otherwise. You can do it, and once you have control over it maybe you can actually enjoy one every so often... Anyway as Yoda once said "there is no try, just do" (I think I quoted that right)