I have smoked since I was 12 and I am 48 now. I had to quit smoking for a month before my back surgery this past April. I cheated just little enough that I passed the nicotine blood work. I really was giving it all after my surgery not to pick it back up. The healing process is going to be slowed down due to smoking. I am kicking myself but I just seem unable to put that final cigarette down. It was a back and forth battle at first and then it was just oh forget it. I mean, I am still keeping myself under 6 cigarettes a day. There is that.