No Smoking – how I quit

Five friends sitting around a table in a smoky bar, smoking cigarettes and drinking beer

In 1981, after several years of gradual therapeutic progress and plain, ordinary "growing up," I quit smoking. It was a gradual process, but one that had a major effect on how I lived. Quitting was a promise I had made to myself, but which was very hard to deliver on. The immeadiate effects? I no …