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Two heavy smokers and how they quit.(THE REST OF YOUR LIFE)
The day Dr. Robert L. Kistner turned his back on cigarette smoking, a behavior he began as a 14-year-old growing up in St. Louis, was Jan. 1, 1982.
"I smoked through high school, college, and through medical school and the Air Force," said Dr. Kistner, now a vascular surgeon who practices in Honolulu. "As I got into practice in the 1960s, I was still smoking more and more."
For him, taking drags from a cigarette "was a very enjoyable thing to do. It was relaxing. I smoked long and heavily. I really hungered for cigarettes."
When the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health came out in 1964, "it became obvious that there was ...
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