This is one of the tougher resolutions and on average smokers will try about four times before they quit for good.
Patches and gums have shown that they can, by slowly weaning smokers off the drug, double the rate at which smokers quit for good.
When we quit a good paying job to start a business we anticipate that owning our own business will mean more fun and more money.
The core members of the Fall quit, for good, and Smith was left to do a gig in England a few weeks later with only the keyboard player his then girlfriend, Julia Nagle and the drummer Kate Themen, a new addition, who played a grand total of three shows with the Fall (possibly a record).
Some, such as Julian Robertson, felt so humiliated they quit the game for good.
But Prof Chapman suggested that the additional licence fee cost and the fact that it would encourage poorer smokers to quit would be a good thing.
The flaw in this idea might be that successful managers will be tempted to quit while the going is good.
The only good reason to quit is to improve your immediate situation.
Officially, Ethiopia is making good on a promise to quit, signed at peace talks in Djibouti last month between Somalia's impotent transitional government and moderate Islamists.
Al-Khatib, a respected preacher who has led the Syrian National Coalition since its creation late last year, said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that he was making good on a vow to quit if certain undefined "red lines" were crossed.
Ecclestone recently said he would only quit when he felt he was not doing a good job.
Health Minister Norman Lamb, who said he quit smoking last week, told BBC Breakfast the campaign was "a good investment in health promotion".
Coe quit, relapsed once when he was 30, but finally kicked nicotine for good after a hospital stay for appendicitis.
And eventually I was able to get really good, and then it was a lot of fun because I quit falling.
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He quit the race, abandoning his waiting wife, and carried on to the Cape of Good Hope for a second time.
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