I started smoking cigs when I was 12, by the time I was 15 I was smoking 1 to 2 packs a day. From 18 to 35 I smoked 4 packs a day. My family has zero pictures of me without a cig burning.
When I was 35 I had a heart attack - quit cold turkey after a week in a hospital bed on oxygen.
8 years later I started smoking cigars. I had almost 600 cigars in my collection at one point and smoked 3 to 5 per day. That got too expensive so I went back to cigs. 3 years ago I started to vape to cut back on the cigs and was eventually able to quit both a couple years ago.
It is very possible to quit but the urge to do it again can creep up at any time.
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