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Since I disagree with most of you on this site, I am going to leave it. For decades most professionals and people in 12 step programs have realized that bullying and nagging will not get people to stop their drug of choice. People have to reach that point on their own. I have been around and been one myself drug/alcohol and smoking addiction. I watched my mother, in end stage copd cry over her efforts, unsuccessfully, to quit smoking. She died at 58. I started smoking at 13 in 1971 by stopping by the gas station on my way to school and spending my lunch money (50 cents) on a pack of marlboro. In the later 70's I met a man who had worked in marketing in the early 70's that told me they intentionally marketed to teenagers. Nicotine is the strongest addiction of any. I am glad for those of you that the bullying worked. There are those in AA that bullying works too. Many more are turned off and go back out, never to return again. I have been quit for 6 weeks and I don't believe I will start smoking again but some of you guys are narrow mindes and, actually, down right cruel.