Yes, mine is also smoking that first cigarette, yep, I also quit numerous times, sometimes as much a 6 months but seemed to always go back to them. Finally after 25 years, while smoking 3 packs a day, my wife leaned over my hospital bed and said the magic words. "The tests came back positive for cancer on your vocal cords". I reached over to the nightstand and raked a nearly full pack of cigarettes into the trash can and from that moment have never had any desire or any withdrawal pains from quitting. I still had 4 kids to raise and didn't think I would survive to raise them. Now, 34 years later, I have no voice box, have COPD, suck on an oxygen line nearly 24 hours a day. OH, by the way, I was absolutely sure that no harm would come to me as a result of smoking.