Have you given up on an adiction? Have did you do it?

like you i was a very heavy smoker 50 - 60 a day, i did that for over forty years, guess i am lucky or unlucky to do that, anyhow i have now chosen not to smoke for the past 6 months notice i said chosen not to smoke rather than give up because you will always be a ex smoker, anyhow just before new year i found myself in hospital and on a breathing maching this lasted for 3 days i was hospitalized for 10 days, they tell me i was lucky to survive and it was simply from being out of breathe, smoking done that to me, i spent the time in hospital thinking.... Now to put it bluntly i was SCARED into quitting and did it "cold turkey" after 40 years simply thinking that i never want to go through all that again.... so for you please just say no to smoking and spare your self what i went through ... if you have trouble give me a yell i do all i can to help