Thanks TIS. I appreciate the support and understanding.

I smoked a pack and a half a day.

It's weird how we become creatures of habit. There are certain times during the day that the craving is very real. Yet there are many times during the day where you think about having a cigarette based more on habit than real craving because of something that you may be doing where, in the past, you would normally light up a smoke.

Those habitual moments are far easier to overcome than the real craving moments.

But going through those several intense cravings during a day vs. the times that you feel the need to light up strickly out of habit, only goes to show you how much more smoking you did based on habit and not on real craving.