[Xenalyte]

There's a cool little device (I'd have to look up the name) that's a little bigger than a pack of smokes. You put the pack inside it and close your hand around it, and these little needles in the bottom punch a hole in the filter of each cigarette.

The first week, you punch one hole. The second week you punch two, and so on. It's an eight-week course, more or less.

My friend who quit smoking with this device said it worked because by Week 8, she was dragging sooooo hard on the cigarette - and getting so little smoke and so much air - that she said the hell with it and chucked the last pack.

[diefree]

My sister-in-law has been doing that to her cigarettes for about 10 years. Hasn't worked yet!

[Warren]

I tried cold turkey too. They're a bitch to keep lit.