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More - I quit three times. First time was because I "was quitting". Only started back up because a group of us walked into a bar, took off our coats, poured from the pitcher, and the rest lit up.
Learned my first lesson about weak moments right then and there.
Quit later. I don't know, probably broke and didn't want to bum one from anyone... and then it hit. Walked into a bar with a group of friends. Took off our coats. Hit up the pitcher. Everyone lighting up... and one friend (where are you now MikePit?) stopped me from bumming a smoke. Told me to wait, because he had just the right thing - came back from the bar with a BIG stogie of a cigar. And yes, I think it took 3 days to shake off smoking that thing like I id a cigarette.
One more thing, my dad died a few months earlier after smoking a carton a week for 25 years - at age 55.
I did start up one more time. My last finals. Promised myself I'd quit the day after them. Guess what? I graduated with a 3.2 GPA and quit the next day.
That was in 1981.
So... that's my story. Now, tell me about Kirk and Spock. :-)
As for my habit... it was half a pack a day. And yes, part of my reason to quit was because I was between jobs in college (I worked thorugh school at some 20 jobs - I remember trying to count them one time)... and I'm sorry, I won't bum a cigarette because I don't want to spend the 50 cents on a pack. (Yes, that should clearly age me... we're talking the late 70s.) I hear a pack of those things go for a few dollars nowadays.