4 points. It is possible that none of these are helpful.
1) I stopped 40 years ago. It was difficult but student poverty made it essential. Petrol and beer were a much higher priority.
2) My lovely Uncle had a number of heart attacks and died at 70. After his first heart attack, the consultant threatened him by saying that if he was admitted again and was still smoking then he wouldn’t treat my Uncle. The threat worked but 40 a day for many years had already done the damage. 2 further heart attacks followed by vascular dementia.
3) A horsey friend of ours bought a second horse on the strength of packing up smoking.
4) We bought our first horse when we calculated that it cost the same to keep a horse in DIY livery as it does to smoke 40 a day. At the time, we new lots of people who smoked 40 a day.
