For me smoking was a peer pressure thing at first. All of my friends were so I did too. Boy I wish I would have had more self esteem as a teenager and said no. Anywho, then it was an addiction. I quit several times before I was successful the last time in 2000. I quit right in the middle of my divorce which was a stressful time and still succeeded. I have had weak moments where I fell off the wagon a few times, but not in a very long time.

Now I can smell a cigarette from a great distance and they don't smell good. I try not to be the former smoker from hell - but I am. Look what they have done for me. I am more than annoyed by the fact that people smoke at the entrances to buildings so that I have to be exposed to it to enter the building. IL has a law that you have to be several feet from the entrance and very few business are adhering to it and I think that they should be fined. I am so glad that all buildings here are now smoke free and I think those that are not obeying that law should also be fined to the maximum extent under the law. It is a personal choice to smoke or not to smoke - and I do not agree with people forcing their personal choices on others which is what they are doing when I have to be around their smoke.

I guess I got on my soap box here. Good morning by the way.

Patty