I smoked cigarettes for about 10 years. I'm only 26 now, so that is scary to me. I just decided one day that I wasn't going to smoke anymore. I haven't had one since that day. I also loved to smoke a pipe as well, I had to give it all up. I had been through spells before where I would quit the cigarettes and smoke the pipe. All that happened then was I would smoke the HELL out of the pipe. No good. Had to drop it all. I can honestly say, it was THE hardest damn thing EVER. EVER. I'm just too damned hard-headed to let something control me. I also gave up drinking for the same reasons. I wasn't as bad off on the drinking as I was the nicotine. But, it had a hold on me, and of course drinking made me do things tobacco did not. I live life straight edge now and I've never felt better.