Thanks to all for support, encouragement and ideas. I've just started on my fifth week tobacco free.

A couple of thoughts to pass on though. I cannot really fault tobacco companies for selling a legal, though harmful, product. I do resent the government agencies that knowingly allowed this in order to fill their coffers at the expense of addicts. These are the same states that provide no assistance to those of us who are breaking our old ways. Here in NH, the meanest state, all the tobacco settlement money is used to keep our small group of very wealthy citizens from paying a small fragment of their share.

I have no problem being around smokers, having been just about the last in our circle to stop. And since our weekly music session is in a pub...

Thanks again -- Tom (nicwit)