When I stopped smoking 13 months and 1 week ago, to never be able to smoke again seemed a daunting task, although I wanted to stop but its something I had done for 46 years how on earth would I be able to manage what would I do instead. These thoughts were swimming around in my head, and I could find no answers. Go through the rest of my life without a cigarette is it possible ? I asked myself. Now I had tried many times to stop and its the fears that I have expressed above had me smoking again, but the truth is I had never stopped smoking long enough to find out if there was any reason for my fears. Now I also had the fear of a long agonizing death and earlier than necessary, and although not a certainty there was a very good chance of it happening. So this time I decided to give it a valid attempt to find out if my fears were maybe unfounded, and boy am I glad I did, because I am now a non-smoker and I have loads of things to do instead of smoking, and the best of it is I have much better health I cant remember when I coughed last and the extra money I have enables me to do things I couldn't afford to do when I was a smoker. So to everyone starting out on their quest to become non-smokers, and who maybe are filled with some of the doubts I had, give it your best shot and you may be pleasantly suprised as I was. Viv