As a smoker for 42 years, I've tried to quit a few times — sometimes for months at a time — but I always found a reason to light up again. My husband is also a smoker, and we often found ourselves on opposite schedules. I'd be trying to quit while he was still smoking, or I was smoking and he was trying to quit. It was easy to slip up with one of us still smoking, and neither of us could stay smokefree for very long. We'd always known that smoking was bad for our health, but it was just such a part of our lives that quitting was never a huge priority — until our health insurance changed. So now, we have to take quitting more seriously.