I started smoking a pipe at least 5+ years ago never got hooked on cigs since they never seemed to give me a nicotine buzz and wern't nearly as nice as good pipe tobak
I have stopped at least once for almost a year but I don't know how it just happened, all I can guess is that I'm less addicted to the nicotine and the act as I am to escapism and something else must have filled that for a time