Wow, did you actually smoke for a decade or more? I did and kicking the smoking habit was the hardest thing I have done in my life.

Even after I quit I wanted a cigarette every day for a year—the battle was each day, for hundreds of days. At the time I would often dream too that I was smoking — and continued to for another few years.

Even now I think if I were told I had a year to live, I would be tempted to light up again.