hug my bro and I would watch the “quit smoking ads” when we were aboot 5, and harassed my parents to quit. We were obnoxious. I’d harass you here, but looks like all I can do is go…
Keep it up grin good luck. Now you won’t smell funny.
Q.E.D., we can suffer along together. It’s been two weeks since my last cigarette. I smoked for ten years, and the last few years have been up in the pack a day range. 
My keyboard is thanking me too.
Unless I’m misremembering, it is in fact possible to cough up lung tissue. It happens in tuberculosis and lung cancer. It disintegrates first and pretty much looks like blood when it comes up, but it’s lung tissue nonetheless.
My friend died of lung cancer. It was a really crappy way to die. He left behind a wife who misses him terribly. She wears his wedding band on a chain around her neck.
Smoking causes impotence!
(Maybe it does and maybe it doesn’t but are you willing to take that chance?)
Here’s another tip:
Drink lots of water and if you’re Jonesing for real, do a set of pushups to exhaustion, it gets the heart beating faster in a healthier way.
Also DAVEW0071 is absolutely correct about the better circulation and um, enhanced elasticity of blood vessels you’ll soon be experiencing. When I quit I was as horny as a Catholic highschooler…which is why I started smoking again more than ever.
Q.E.D., if you quit smoking, I promise to give you three deep, long, passionate, wet soul-kisses. With tongue. Guaranteed.
.:Nichol:.
You better be a girl!
Anyway, update: Day Two. It’s been some 20 hours since my last one and still no severe cravings. I’ve noticed a slight tendency to replace cigs with food, which I’m trying to quell. I don’t want to end up putting on huge amounts of weight like some ex-smokers do. I can feel my lungs clearing up, and I haven’t coughed up any phlegm all day. Smells and flavors are more enhanced already (I think it’s time to wash this shirt!) It’s going quite well, so far. Yep, I think I’m gonna do it this time!
Go, Q.E.D.!! I’m rooting for you!! Have you considering upping your exercise? I think it’s going to be hard not to eat when you get a craving for nicotine.
My bookworm tip is, read Grisham’s The Runaway Jury. 
I am a girl, but you don’t have to kiss me if you don’t like tall busty blondes. YMMV, of course. But I’m sure smooching you will be much more pleasant once you’re rid of the ashtray-mouth.
My mother smoked since she was fourteen, and even though I begged her to quit, she always refused. “I enjoy it,” she’d say, “and I don’t see why I have to give up something that I enjoy.” She used to have awful coughing fits that would wake me up at night. Then she got sent to prison (long story) and while in there actually fell off the top bunk of her cell when she had a horrible coughing fit. She was examined and diagnosed with emphysema. That’s why she should have given up smoking, whether she enjoyed it or not.
.:Nichol:.
With encouragement like this, how can I lose?
Wow, Popsicle, are you me? I smoked for eighteen years and your post reflects word-for-word my experience and outlook, and my opinion of Allen Carr’s book (I subsequently found other, better written books which take a similar approach).
To reiterate, IMO the trick is to eliminate the desire to smoke. It’s possible to quit otherwise, but very hard, as witnessed by many people in threads like this. Get rid of the idea that you are making a sacrifice, though, and it can be surprisingly easy. I speak as someone who failed to quit many times before this time succeeding with no great effort, by focussing on the fact that I didn’t really enjoy smoking that much in the first place, it was 90% habit. OK, it’s only been 4 months, but apart from a couple of cravings in the first week I have had no desire to smoke at all, I don’t feel as if I’m missing out on anything, I just don’t think about it. I still can’t get over how easy it’s been, actually (tempting fate).
Thats what I want you to think!!!
To avoid gaining weight and satisfy the whole oral fixation thing, stock up on fresh, crisp veggies (carrots, celery, red and green peppers, etc.) and get some no-fat ranch dressing. Wishbone is my favorite, works great when you’re cutting weight for wrestling - just bust out the veggies and dip and munch away to satisfy the cravings and for a negligable caloric intake.
Excellent. You now have me exactly where I want you.
QED;
In addition to all the good reasons already listed:
once you quit, your lungs will start to heal. They have the ability to generate new tissue, and eventually (depending on the gunk quotient in your immediate environment) you will have healthy lungs again!! The damage done by the smoking you’re doing now will take time to erase, but it will happen.
Best of luck.
In case I haven’t said so already, thankyou everyone who replied so far. It’s still going well, with no sign of bad cravings! Whooo hooo!
Hell, QED, keep it up and you can be the first recipient of my non-cigarette-y kisses.
Whoooo hoooo! A plethora of kisses keeps Q.E.D. from smoking.
By the way, Q.E.D., I touched one cigarette from every pack in Elizabeth, NJ to the inside of a cow’s rectum.
Best of luck.