Ah Ambrose, you made my day.

I went from 4 packs of Marlboros a day to chain smoking green cigars and inhaling - to the point I drug myself to a doctor thinking I had the flu and was told after a blood test that I had nicotine poisoning.

It takes what it takes to quit. There may be some free support groups from the American Lung Assn or American Cancer Society or your county health dept.

Docs can help with nicotine replacement therapy to at least change your method of nicotine deliviery...

It took me many attempts to quit, but I finally made it back in '74. If I can do it, you can do it.

These days I facilitate tobacco cessation groups and know more of that horrible stuff tobacco smoke does to the human body than I ever wanted to know. Keeps me from going back...that and losing friends to lung cancer on an all too regular basis.

Its worth the effort, and the agony. Just be sure and warn your loved ones and coworkers you'll be a tad irritable for a while.

AND, think of all the extra money you'll have to spend on kilts!!

Ron