Please read if you have even the slightest interest in quitting smoking

So, I quit smoking about a month a ago. Actually a month and a week ago. I started smoking when I was sixteen. Well, not seriously smoking but that's when I had my first cigarette. Why did I try it? It's hard to say. The girls who gave me my first smoke weren't my close friends so it's not like I really felt pressured. I think I did it just to be cool. And by cool I mean I knew it was "wrong." Or maybe I just thought it would be fun. Who knows my exact reason really. Anyway, I didn't really start smoking out of habit til I was 18. Again, who really knows why I started up again? I smoked about a pack a day til I was 21 I think. Then I decided to quit because someone in my household quit and I thought I would quit too. I quit cold turkey. It was actually rather easy, I only remember one time almost telling the person I was in a car with to turn around and get me a pack of smokes but for some reason I didn't. And the craving past and pretty soon I was a nonsmoker. But that only lasted about ten months.(Perhaps I should segway here and mention that during this time I was horribly strung out on Meth. Meth, I believe at this point in my life made cigarettes aversive to me by making me nauseous. Also, in my diluted mind I thought it was perfectly acceptable for everyone to have at least one vice. And ultimately my addiction to Meth, and perhaps my immaturity, caused me to take up smoking again. For it would be stress and the lack of Meth that would lead me to start smoking again.) So I found myself breaking up in one relationship only to jump into a more toxic one, and I ran out of dope so I thought, oh, I'll just have one smoke. (Necessary to me because of "all the stress" I was going through.) Well, that lasted about two days and then I was out buying a whole pack. Way to backslide. So eventually, shit went down and about a year and a half later I had switched Meth for cigarettes and cigarettes only. Once again I was down to one vice. So fast forward to December, 2008. I began thinking about quitting smoking again. I didn't really want to, after all, I really enjoyed smoking. BUT, I kept thinking... "I don't want to be 40 or 50 and be dying if cancer and be thinking 'Damn it! I should have quit when I was 25 like I thought about doing...' " So I called my states quitline, every state has one, and I got some information about quitting. When I called they were giving away three free months of Chantix, a stop smoking aid. So I thought, "What the hell?" And gave it a try. I have to tell you, the worst part was the cutting down. On the 8th day of taking the prescription I quit. I haven't smoked since. It was SO easy. I still can't believe how easy it was. Almost NO cravings. It was the hardest the first 7 days of the medication when I was still having smokes but trying to cut down. I was such a bitch I thought there's no way I'm going to make it but I did! Me, with a motivation level of about a 5 out of 10 quit smoking! It's still not a total piece of cake. A lot of my friends still smoke and there's still situations I feel like I should be smoking, like when everyone around me is. But I just tell myself, I made it this long, why give up? Why give up indeed....