It has been 6 months.

[MrModerate]

10. 23 years for me . . .

And it wasn't that hard. My company banned smoking in our office building, and I didn't have much choice.

Even though I was not emotionally prepared to quit — I still liked smoking — my employer subsidized behavioral-modification sessions, which lasted for a week, and after going through them my urges were nearly extinct.

However, for months afterwards I kept waking up from the same dream — that I had a burning cigarette in my fingers and was about to set the bed on fire.