Trying to stop smoking.

[Rab Gordon]

I smoked for over 20 years and stopped when we were expecting our son.
I also found that Alan Carr's book helped
Good luck
Rab

[McClef]

I really must try again too.

It's getting harder and harder to smoke in many situations as smoking bans advance all the time especially on modes of transport and in public places.

When you fly you have to build up your nicotine reserves well before your flight because of the need to get through security in time and when you land you have to go through passport/immigration controls (unless on a domestic flight) and then wait for your luggage at the carosel and maybe have to get through customs before you can head for the exit and try to light up with a match as you couldn't take your favourite lighter on the plane, even in the hold.

If you have an in flight meal that's one of the times you most want to finish off with a ciggie and on a long flight that can be frustrating.

You can't smoke on a train and in the UK that often includes a train station too even if the platforms are in the open air which does seem somewhat over the top. You can't smoke on a bus or a coach or inside on a ferry.

You can't smoke in a cinema, so you wait for the DVD to come out.

Soon you won't be able to smoke in a pub or club or any eating place in England or Wales (you already can't in Scotland).

There is no longer any balance between the rights of smokers and non-smokers.

So health and economic reasons are not the only ones, it's also being part of an increasingly oppressed minority.