Rrumbler, your story reminds me of my Dad who smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes for at least 25 years, but switched to Salem's if he got a cold/congestion for the menthol. He "quit" many times, and once had been off of them for almost a month, but kept them beside his chair in the living room. On morning the phone rang about 6am with an empty school bus in the ditch and kids to be picked up for school (he was a small town school Superintendent), and as he hung up the phone from his last call he looked down and had a Salem half gone in his fingers and didn't even remember lighting it When I got up he was smoking one with his coffee, and said, "They're just a part of me, and I guess I can't fight it!" Years later I came home on leave from the Navy and brought him a couple of cartons of tax free cigarettes, which was customary, and he said, "Oh, I guess I didn't tell you that I quit". He took me up stairs, held out a ~10"x2"x14" jewelry box at arms length, and laughed big when I took it and it nearly hit the floor. I opened it and found it filled with rolled half dollar coins, about $400. When I asked, he explained to me that what finally "worked" for him was that he got up one day and decided that he really wanted to quit, and as he picked up his change from the dresser he tossed two $0.50 coins into a decorative bowl that was sitting there, which was the price of 2 packs in '68. Through the day, as he was tempted to buy a pack he told himself, "No, I already "spent" my cigarette money this morning", and went on with his day. As the bowl filled he rolled the halves and tucked them away, he didn't miss a morning dropping his dollar in that bowl, because that was his "cigarette money" and it was gone for that day. He kept that new habit for well over a year, then shifted to monthly deposits into a special savings account for a while.

With the price of a pack today the incentive would add up a whole lot faster, like $10/day or more Might just get a guy's attention...... Sorry for the ramble...