Jed Rose

Every move a smoker makes: the lighting of the cigarette, the inhaling, all the feelings and sensations of it, the whole package becomes highly addictive.

Ultimately, they will lose their capacity to make a free choice to smoke, then 30 years later, that's when we typically see them in our program desperately trying to quit, because now they can't go a single day without (a cigarette).

The chemicals in cigarettes work on the structures deep within a smoker's brain, literally rewiring it so the habit becomes deeply ingrained.

The behavior addiction of smoking may be far more compelling than just the short-term withdrawal symptoms of a hard drug.

Lifelong smokers face a greater than 1 in 2 chance of dying from smoking-related diseases, including a roughly 1 in 10 chance of dying from lung cancer.