Just about everyone knows someone who smokes, i.e. a friend, family member, or someone they work with. Smoking is a habit that I believe most of the population has fortunately for me this is a habit that I was able to kick once I left the military. When I was in the Marine Corps I was a heavy smoker because of the stress and anxiety of being in a combat infantry unit this was one of the best ways for me to relieve that type of stress. When I exited the military at the age of 24 I had constantly been smoking off and on trying to quit the habit of smoking as Duhigg states in the power of habit “ Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped”, I think that the reason I had slowly struggled to quit smoking was be cause of social and behavioral instincts. The social part of it being difficult to smoke was because I was associating myself with people that would smoke on a daily basis especially when going out to have drinks with my friends that I had served with in the military this made me think that I needed to smoke in order to fit in and have something in common with those that I was associating myself with and work with in order to be liked and accepted. The behavioral aspect of smoking was due to it being a natural instinct from it being a normal thing to do; it was like muscle memory for my mind and body to crave a cigarette. As I was growing up I had family members that would smoke around me all the time and in high school I hung around a lot of the older teens and cousins that would smoke and drink, these people were my main influences for starting to smoke, I started smoking at the age of 16. When I had entered the Marines it was the first time that I was surrounded by people I did not know which meant that I had to make new friends and fit in and naturally in the military just about every one uses some form of tobacco product, I chose to smoke in order to fit