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I always applaud those who have unshackled themselves from the "dreaded weed" the longer you have been a smoker the harder it must be. I didn't start smoking till I was 19, baring in mind in those days everyone seemed to smoke, even the adverts hinted you weren't a man if you didn't smoke. I was on about a 12/16 per day, not excessive by others standards and I had quit by the time I was 24 I believe the average to be around 20 per day. I once worked alongside a chain smoker who's minimum intake was 140 p/day!
I stopped smoking at my wife's insistence as she was expecting our second child and so I made the effort and stopped for the kids sake, and I haven't touched one since. The very last cigarette I had was the day she was born, last month she celebrated her 44th birthday.