1998. Wife really wanted me to quit. Decided that a high average day for me would be 12 cigs. So the first week I smoked 12 per day. Next week, went to 11, and so on. When I got down to 2 per dsy, i stayed there for 5 years. Would smoke one cig after supper and one before bed. Went through a bad allergy phase and stopped completely to see if that was a factor. This was early 2003. Got on the vape train last month when I had decided that I was going to start smoking again, tried vaping as an alternative. Worked.