I had an interesting experience about smoking about a month ago.

I was in the "casting" room to be fitted for a giant plastic hateful plastic monstrosity for my broken toes. (can you tell I hated my cast?)

The large room was made into small cubicles by hanging curtains. That mean one could hear everything said on the other side of the curtain.

A guy had fallen off his ladder and broken the heel of his foot. The casting guy asked if he smoked cigarettes. The guy said yes. Then the casting guy told him the bones would not heal because he smoked. The doctor came in and said he could not operate if the guy continued to smoke.

The two of them really got serious with the man and what smoking was doing from a medical standpoint.

I felt bad for the guy. I could tell it was not going to be easy to stop smoking plus having to do it cold turkey. There was not much choice.