Best of luck Fuffa. I quit smoking a week before starting ss. I went to an Allen Carr seminar, had been trying to quit for ages then. In the past if I gave up cigarettes I would turn to snacking more, and if I went on a diet I would smoke more. I never thought I could manage doing the two at the same time, but I got such positivity from the seminar that I gave myself one week off the cigs, to be sure to be sure, and then started this diet. I hope to never look back!