The Col: I started smoking a little over 40 years ago. I stopped trying to quit smoking a little over 30 years ago... I'm trying to keep from laughing about this, but it's hard to stop doing that too. If you haven't done something for over 30 years, it takes a while to get back into it... like the art of quiting smoking.

I started off as a heavy smoker, went from one to two to three and then four packs a day. Four packs a day for almost a year nearly killed me. I would wake up 2 or 3 times a night because the addiction was so strong I couldn't sleep through the whole night without waking up to smoke... it was that bad.

So anyway, the smoking tapered off more or less naturally (because it had to, or I wouldn't be here today talking about it) to about two packs a day. All of this happened within a year of starting to smoke. After about 10 to 15 years of two packs a day I switched over to hand rolled cigarettes, and that's where I am today... I'm an expert at rolling cigs, even people who do the same are impressed with how I can roll a nearly perfectly shaped cig in only a few seconds.