in article , Dan Luke at
wrote on 11/21/04 8:16 AM:


"Jay Honeck" wrote:
Man, I'm with Jim on this one. I smoked 2.5 packs of Marlboros a day
for years, and quit cold-turkey in 1986, while watching my
father-in-law die a horrible death due to lung cancer.

Man, I punched walls till my knuckles bled, and was just a total
******* to be around. After three days the physical symptoms were
gone, but the psychological addiction persisted for many years.

Ditto. I smoked from age 13 to 30; quitting was one of the toughest
things I've ever done.

To this day, I still love the THOUGHT of having a smoke --

Not I. Do you still have "the smoking dream?" The one where you're
smoking again and realize you've re-addicted yourself? Aaaagghhh!

Yeah, but waking up and realizing that you haven't really backslid is always
a relief.