Congratulations! You should use some of those savings to buy yourself a nice reward once in a while -- it's worth it, and the positive reinforcement makes it that much easier to stick with it!

Man, I'm lucky I grew up with a mother who was quitting smoking. It seems, from my observations, that nothing else can so permanently set a child against smoking from then on. I wonder if that's true for everyone, or just for the folks I've compared notes with?

I never got into smoking, but I've been biting my fingernails since childhood, often to the point of bloody cuticles. I've been trying to quit for years, and only in the last year or two have I begun to make anything that could be called progress.

I'd not bite my nails for a few days, then one day would be tough, and I'd find I had no nails left. After a bit, I'd go for a week without biting my nails, only to find that one tough afternoon at work had left me with no remaining nails. But I've kept at it, and now I'm currently at a month or so without a bite, and even though I find myself playing my fingernails across my teeth at tough points, I haven't given in yet. This may be the time they stay unbit.

Quitting is hard, but each time I quit, it gets a little easier to stay quit. You can do it, just don't get discouraged by the occasional setback!

I do indeed know these people! And now my insatiable curiousity demands to know the context by which I entered this conversation! If there is no answer forthcoming, then I'll be forced to conjure up some imaginary scenario of awesomeness involving bears and time-traveling ghosts.