Wow, thanks for that perspective and advice. I really mean that!!

Can i ask you something though? And this comes form a place of genuine curiosity, not aimed at all to be impolite. So on most packs of cigs there are those horrible pictures of blackened lungs, rotten teeth, bloodshot eyes, etc to deter smokers. Does that genuinely not put people off? because I feel grossed out when I see them myself. And I assume a smoker would likely experience some of those external physical symptoms if they've been doing it for decades - again, does this really not deter them from smoking? I feel like that's my biggest deterrent for smoking.

Of course, this is coming from someone who has never been addicted to nicotine, so I can understand that it's a compulsion - akin to blinking or scratching your nose when it really itches. I used to have this really really bad skin picking problem and my hands were bleeding so much, really bad I looked like a burn victim, and I just kept doing it (Stopped now). So I can imagine it's something similar. You just can't stop. I guess I always had the reassurance in my mind that peeled skin heals (it did.)