My dad just recently quit after 40 years of smoking. Yes, that’s right, forty years! If he can give up a habit he’s had since he was thirteen, you can do it, dude. We belieeeeeeve in you!
::cheers::
Euty, haul out the big guns. Threaten to make Q.E.D. a moderator if he doesn’t quit smoking. 
Smoking is so expensive now that the quitting products seem reasonably priced.
Q.E.D., so far as I can tell, you’re probably one of the best hopes we have against the DreadCthulhu. Have you seen the posts this creature makes? It’s evil, I tell you, evil! It even mocks you, ordering you to quit smoking! It thinks you’re weak, that you won’t be able to quit, and your smoking will weaken you to the point that He can win. Stay strong, Q.E.D., for the war on the Great Old One!
or something like that.
I’ve found that aerobic exercise is the best way to encourage yourself to stay off cigarettes. Start taking long walks or play basketball. Those work for me. When you are active it makes you appreciate your rediscovered lung capacity.
I quit smoking cigarettes about a year ago with the nicotine gum. Problem is, I allowed myself to switch to cigars. Now, on the extremely rare occasion that I have a cigarette, they taste like burning paper and smell worse. They also don’t do much for me. Now I just have to kick this very expensive and smelly cigar habit.:smack:
So the moral is QUIT SMOKING!
Smoking makes your teeth YELL-O!
Smoking makes your breath SMELL-O!
Of couse there’s always tooth whiteners and breath mints.
Think “All Time Post Count Leader” on the back of your SDMB player card, and how incontestable your record will be if you live a long life. You can do it.
You will love the result.
I quit in March 1997, after nearly 30 years. Cold turkey - got pissed off listening to Weekend Edition talking about Tobacco execs admitting that they knew…
Crumpled up the pack and never did it again. 3 days into it, the physical withdrawal was weird. Through that and never looked back.
Started exercising (brisk walks & then rowing) and also lost 40 pounds.
I’ve never felt better or looked better (so folks tell me).
You can do it and it will change your life.
Saw a stand-up comic do this years ago:
How to quit smoking:
Step 1: Give your friend your pack of cigarettes.
Step 2: Have your friend take a couple of cigarettes out of the pack.
Step 3: Have your friend stick the cigarettes way up his nose.
Step 4: Have your friend put the cigarettes back in the pack.
Step 5: Have your friend thoroughly jumble up all the cigarettes in the pack.
Step 6: Take back the pack of cigarettes.
Step 7: Feel the urge to light up magically disappear.
Best of luck, Q.E.D.! You can do it!
You’ll smell a lot better, for starters. You’ll have more money. You’ll be more likely to get kisses, since kissing a smoker isn’t a treat, and anything that leads to more lovin’ is good. You won’t have to scurry outside and huddle in the rain/sleet/snow for a precious cigarette. You won’t be a slave to a bunch of leaves wrapped in paper. Your lungs won’t look like charred steaks. You probably won’t get that awful Smoker’s Cough/Smoker’s Wheeze so many of them pick up. You won’t be supporting the vile Tobacco Industry anymore. Your chances for cancer of all kinds will go down, I believe. Certainly can’t hurt.
My grandfather smoked two packs a day. Too bad he died of lung cancer before I got a chance to know him. I was less than a year old when he died.
On a less chilling note, my future SIL is doing what you’re doing. It takes a lot of guts and determination. Good luck!
I don’t mean to alarm you, Q.E.D., but I heard on the news last night that smoking might not be good for you. 
Good luck.
Not good for me? Really?? And to think all this time, I’ve been smoking for purely therapeutic reasons. Silly me.
You don’t see the true evil of My plan. If ** Q.E.D. ** stops smoking, it proves that he will now listen to my commands; if he doesn’t stop smoking he will probably get lung cancer and die. I can’t lose! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Ah, the old post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. If I quit smoking it will most assuredly not be because I obeyed your commands. 
Good luck, Q.E.D.; it’ll be one of the wisest things you do.
Everyone’s different of course, but for me the best path (must be 12 years ago now) was just to quit absolutely one day.
The biggest challenge isn’t saying no to 7 packs a week. It’s saying no to one puff of one cigarette. Because that’s all you want, just one puff. But you know that one puff is all it takes to quickly put you back in the full-time smoker column again.
Anyway, the intellectual reasons to quit are obvious:
Smoker: poorer, yellow fingers, yellow teeth, holes in clothes, stinky and closer to death
Non-smoker: happier, healthier, better looking and smelling.
Great luck; you can do it!
Q.E.D., lean in real close to your monitor.
Closer…
Closer…
Stop smoking!
Hope that helps.
You can do it Q.E.D. Even if you stumble once or twice, Don’t stop trying!!
I started smoking when I was 16 years old. When I hit 30, I was smoking a little over a pack a day and feeling it too.
I quit cold turkey when I had my gall bladder out. I had tried the patches (which broke me out) and the gum (made me sick) so I had little choice in the manner.
If you have any cigarettes left when you quit - take one out when you are really craving and slowly crumble it in your fingers. Every little bit you tear away, think of something you are gaining from quiting. Your health, more money, better breath, More breath and end it with the thought that smoking will not control you anymore.
Good luck. You can do it!
Another advantage to not smoking…
Time. And not just the time you’re tacking on to your life expectancy; we’re talking minutes per day. Say you spend a minute per cigarette; finding them, lighting up, taking instants out of whatever you’re doing to take a drag. That’s 20 minutes per day. 21 hours in a year. And that’s based on a really conservative estimate; what with having to smoke outside these days, you may be up to five or six minutes per smoke, average. Five days a year.
Lastly, remember the words from a poster I saw in an old edition of the venerable comic book, The Tick:
Kissing a smoker is like licking Darren McGavin.
And who wouldn’t want a sig like that, Q.E.D.? I remember it working for one Doper in recent memory. 