When it's time to quit

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When is smoking the best time to quit I would ask myself. Was I ready to take on such a difficult task? After a week of telling people and myself that I just needed one day of being so sick where I couldn't smoke would help me and give me a push in the right direction of quitting this aweful habit. It suddenly happened! The following Monday I was starting to feel very ill at work and by the afternoon, I was getting feverish. I stuck it out until I got home that evening then went straight to my couch and I didn't get up till the next day. I ended up not smoking for those two days then decided to make it three, four, five and so on. A week passes on and I've never been more sicker than ever with a sore throat, uncontrolable coughing and other little things that just don't feel right. I ended up going to two different hospitals to see if I had a case of strep throat. On both occasions the doctors told me that it was due to quitting smoking and that when people quit, the withdrawals tend to make ones immune system weaken. Yesterday I went halfers on a pack of smokes with my friend and had one. Suddenly the coughing stopped, the sore throat disappeared and strangely, I feel better. So I don't think it's the right time for me to quit smoking although I did very well. I lasted a week and a half. That's not bad for someone who has smoked for twenty-one years. That's practically almost half my life. Right now we're in the process of moving to another house because of the mold in this place. It's unbelieveable how the mold is growing upstairs due to a wet basement. When we move into our new house I will attempt to try quitting smoking again. Are you a smoker and have you ever quit? What was your experience like?