Great comments, but I beg to disagree. I was a heavy smoker for years and I didn't think much of puffing two packs a day, with gusto. One day my doctor told me that there was an immediate danger to my health because of my habit. I registered with the NHS Stop Smoking, joined the group, followed the nurse advice, used the nicotine patches for a few weeks and got on with my life, end of. It is now a few years since I’ve quit and I never looked back. I can't actually believe I even started in the first place but in Italy smoking is much more common and accepted and I just did what everybody else did. When it was time to choose between cigarettes and being alive, though, there was no contest. I simply can't understand how anybody would choose otherwise. I am not bragging and I'm not saying that it was easy. However a lot of people make it sound so excruciatingly difficult and it ISN'T. I feel they convince themselves it is and *pop* you have a self-fulfilling prophecy. As for comparing withdrawals symptoms from heroin with quitting smoking… Please! I don’t have personal experience with smack but have you ever seen someone giving up heroin? How can you compare THAT against the desire of lighting up? Have you ever seen someone shaking with diarrhoea and vomiting, having cramps and thrashing on the floor because they couldn’t have a cigarette? Get real. *end of preaching and making myself some enemies*