Well, it's wasn't that hard for me to quit. I was only smoking about a pack and a half a week. Some smokers I talked to told me "don't even call yourself a "smoker". I can easily smoke a pack and half in a morning." But, when I really got involved in rodeo/roping and bought my first horse, is when I tried, and liked "dipping" Shoal Regular. I didn't "dip" nearly like my horseshoer/farrier did. He'd go thru a can of Copenhagen in one day.
I smoked about a half a pack a day, and for only a few years, but I tried to quit on my own a few times before going through a program that was successful.
@Shirley Martin Mary is that unattainable soulmate, unattainable because of life's circumstances, in this case a death sentence and regardless whose lips are kissed, it is Mary's sweet lips thought of, Mary's lips he seeks to feel one last time.
I'm a wise old owl but what do I know of relationships or the Mary's of the world. Nata. Nothing. My expertise has to do with failure.