Doctors orders...quit cigarettes!

Good luck and way to go! I quit cigarettes 23 years ago and it was rough. Three weeks of chewing gum and I had to stop that because my mouth tasted like rubber all the time. To this day I don't chew gum anymore. I didn't pick up cigars until around '04 (I grew up around them with my great-grandfather) and never have had a craving for a cigarette. The hardest part about it is the psychological part, wanting that smoke after eating, while driving, etc. No regrets at all here.

I had a heart stent put in this summer and I told all of the heart specialists about my occasional cigar and they didn't care a bit about those. I go through a lot of cigars during the warm months but few during the cold months.