I'm an Eater!
Invincible, great post! Yes, I too know many people who cut down smokers but they eat everything and anything!
My husbands grandfather was like you, his health was great! He started smoking at the age of 8, for the last 5 years of his life he was smoking 4 packs a day. He was very active. He never got cancer that we know of, he did have emphsyma (sp) when he died, but that's not what killed him, it was his heart. He was 82 yrs old. On the other end, my mom started smoking around 18, stopped around 40. Has had breast cancer, is overweight, has depression, now has leukemia, has never been really active, her health is horrible, and she's only 64. My dad is 80 and he's in better health than her! He's always been active and took lots of vitamins and such.
I hope that you can unravel the mystery to your smoking. I don't know if there's a mystery to my eating, I eat because I'm bored, happy, sad, mad, whatever. I did do the master cleanse for 16 days! It's hard to eat right and healthy. Just as hard to quit smoking. But, we will do it.
Have a good day,
Midge