I smoked from some time in '76 (when I was in high school) till December '05. There were times when I was up to 3 1/2 packs a day of Camel unfiltered, there were times when I was barely a pack a week of ultra-lights and there were times when I'd go a few weeks without smoking. I even quit for a few months a couple of times. I finally kicked it when I realized that having just one cigarette was all it would take to make me a smoker again. On previous attempts, I'd give in somewhere along the way, have "just one" and go right back to smoking. First couple of weeks were hard (on me and my family) but it got easier (but not easy) from there. Still times when lighting up sounds good but that happens less and less as time goes by.