Dr Adequate writes:
Atheists can quit smoking too.
Yes they can.
But do you know anyone who ever quit cold turkey, no patches, no gum or helps of any kind without any withdrawl problems?
My father. After more than 20 years of smoking regularly, he then spent a year watching his own father die slowly and painfully of lung cancer. In all the remaining 35 years until he died, I only saw him with a cigarette once and that was 20 years after he had quit and was because of a period of very heavy stress in his business.
And my son right after his divorce, once that bad influence had been removed from his life. And neither he nor my father suffered any weight gain for it.
True, in my son's case it was mainly lack of a reason to continue, but in my father's case he had the strong motivation of having closely watched smoking kill a family member. Others may find motivation elsewhere, such as in the belief that their god wants them to quit and will help them to do it.