Never started.

Likely not. I've been advised to, for reasons I shall keep my own, but I know it's the one vice that I shall not be able to give up.

Unfortunately, I don't think so

Of course, everyone does - it's called "death and dying". When my body can no longer support my "bad habbits" I will of course set them aside, just as my parents did and their parents did. I may even quit sooner then that, I have been debating the merrits of a smoke free lifestile for some weeks now, although I'm sure that my wife and two daughters won't be joining me in my quest to be "smoke free", those three ladies do enjoy their cigarettes with a zeal I could only wish for!

I would have to begin doing so first, something I don't think I ever will.. If I want to kill myself, there's quicker and less messy ways to do it

Everyone stops smoking ultimately. You can't light a ciggarette in a coffin.

I cut it down to about 20 a year and haven't broke that number in 3 years so I don't really see the point in quitting.

Most likely, dear friend, you will not listen to me. Its that way with smokers. I know, I was one of them for fifty years. Last year I was diagnosed with horrid lung cancer. Consequently I had part of my right lung removed. A large part. NOTHING ... but NOTHING is worth lung cancer. There is absolutely NO PAIN like it. Not only do I have a fifteen inch incision under my arm -- a PROFOUND and SERIOUS wound unto itself -- they break the rib cage to get it and spread 'em wide. They cut through nerve bundles to get past the chest muscles. This creates pain unimaginable and unbearable EVEN WITH post-surgical pain medicine. I will NEVER be 'the same.' Its not 'just' the cancer ... that is brutal enough, its the unbelievable trauma, the unrelenting pain ... even today. On yeah ... and not being able to take a full breath and consequently, even after one year, continue to have a fatigue so profound we 'jokingly' say I can only do 'one big thing a day.' I have always loved my life. I've am an undeniable, very up, optimistic person. I have faced and survived MANY life challenges, including other life-threatening ones and over-came them. I am madly in love (still) with beloved: 26 years and thank-God, still counting. BUT, I can assure you once again, there is NOTHING BUT NOTHING like lung cancer and ALL that means. I am fighting with everything I can find within and let me tell you 'there ain't much' right now since most, if not all, calories are still going into healing the remaining lung structures, the muscles, the bones and the nerves. By the way, 'the brain' is LAST -- receives the calories I intake last -- since the body requires all calorie intake first. This means that I am walking around NOT in a depression but in a fog most times. (It took me almost six months or more to even 'get' this cognitively.) I stopped smoking the day of the surgery. In hospital, they put me on the patch, and a [then] new drug called Chantix which REALLY works as it creates an aversion to smoking IN the brain itself and I chewed gum too. At a year, I don't miss smoking at all. All I have to do is not just 'remember' the surgery ... No, dears. In ONE SECOND all I have to do is FEEL what I feel under my arm ... STILL. Its not pretty. No matter what anyone said to me, no pictures, no lectures, no warnings, it was I, the one who didn't know its NOT about me 'the person' who smokes: it IS the cigarette that takes the next one. It is an addiction no smoker can possibly understand until you are past it. By the way: it is this year I found out that the quantity of tar and nicotine in cigarettes 'these days' has increased a hundred fold since I started smoking at that sweet, but stupid, age of 14. PLEASE ... you KNOW what's next. STOP NOW! DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO ... SPEND WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO ... TRY WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO ... GO TO WHEREVER YOU HAVE TO. DO NOT ... walk in my shoes.

Been there, Done that! :-) You will if you WANT to.

In my experience (and I used to smoke myself) people only stop smoking when they really make up their own mind to do so. Bullying or persuading someone to stop does not work for long. It is best to stop when you are ready to.

I did stop smoking almost a full year ago. I did it for myself, but primarily my kids. On Christmas morning I told them that I had quit as one of my gifts to them.