Ok, so i know that this is an old post, but i remembered seeing it and i'm trying to quit smoking. I'm 17, and started out smoking at 13. I only smoked maybe once or twice a day, my parents didnt find out about it until i was about 15, i've been smoking a whole lot more than that since then. I was up to about a pack a day beacuse i'd always be hanging out with my sister and her boyfriend, who both smoke. I usually wake up and have a ciggarette, then have one when i walk to school, then have another one at school, then on the way home from school, and then one of two before i go to bed. Its horrible, because now all my friends smoke. I started smoking because i got into smoking marijuana. BAD BAD STUFF!! I quit that by using ciggarettes, then i tried to quit smoking, but got into chewing. DAMN that apple skoal. I quit chewing, with the help of my bf by using toostie rolls. Then i quit them for a while, but somehow ended up smoking agian. I smoke when i drink, which is also bad, beacuse its like a pack at least. My sister's fiance that she has now smokes 2 packs a day and my other sister's bf smokes a pack a day since he got out of a jail about 6 months ago. I have tried cutting back, which is about 3-4 a day, but im going nuts. My friend amanda jsut quit smoking, but now she's chewing. The incentive that i used to quit chewing, was the tobacco in my teeth, but now the have the pouches. I had one of those the other day. I havent had a cigarette since this morning and i hope to not have one tonight or tomorrow morning. I'm not sure if i really want to quit though. I had one a few weeks ago at my grandfathers farm when i was working on my truck and he didnt know that i smoked and he asked me if i was dumb and reminded me that his father died from emphysema. I felt like dying right there. It is a stupid habit. Both of my sister's quit smoking but thats because they're both pregnant, and get sick from. Its just so hard. Money is real real tight right now, to say the least, we're pretty hard pressed, but i'm going nuts. Theres 8 people living in my house, including a 1 and half year old. My mom smokes, my dad smokes cigars, and jerry and lucas smoke, my sisters' bfs'. MY sisters are pregnant, which they are a bit *moody* if you can call it that. We dont have tv or anything like that to preoccupy me, and now that all my friends have picked up the habit its hard. I know that its more environment then habit for me though, beacause when i'm at my grandparents house, i dont smoke, dont want one, and dont even think about it. Its not stressful there i guess, but i want to know how to cut the stress, really, because cost isnt really a problem, because i get ciggarettes all the time from friends and my bf buys them for me. Oh yeah he smokes at least a pack and a half a day. When i'm driving my ford, i dont smoke beacuse it's standard, but when i drive my toyota, which is an auto, i smoke. Trouble is im selling my ford so i can get my toyota on the road. And trying to keep the ash trays clean isnt an incentive, because i dont use them anyhow, and i clean the dash and that regualary, and theres never really any ciggarette ashes on it. Chew was hard enough to quit and i really dont want to have to fall back on it, beacuse jsut about everyone in my equipment class at school chews, and i fit into the "redneck" quota, so a handful of my friends chew also. I need some more incentive, can anyone help?!?!?! I have my grandfather, but thats not really a direct hit, and i dont even hardly get to ride, so thats not one either!!!!!!