I had been a 40 year smoker up until 4/27/06 when I got my diagnosis results of BOT Squamous Cell. Quit cold turkey with no prior history of even a slight attempt to quit. I was up to 2 packs plus per day and felt like the most addicted person on earth. The cancer diagnosis was the most sobering thing to hit me at that time at 59 years of age. Now, after almost 3 years, I never once touched tobacco again although I will not say it has been easy. It WAS easy to quit but the continued urge and desire still haunts me from time to time now. Only recently has the smell of nearby outside smokers begun to smell bad to me. Even so, the urge to smoke still hits from time to time. I simply etched into my brain the simple conclusion that to ever smoke again will assure a recurrence in my case. That seems to be working so far.

Bill D.