'I suppose it's supposed to be encouraging: If you can quit  for today, then you can do it tomorrow, too. A one-day-at-a-time  thing. Even if I go one day without smoking because of the Great  Smokeout, why wouldn't I smoke again tomorrow?'

That's a rhetorical question. Sharbono did go without smoking  on a Great Smokeout day a few years ago. The next morning, she  tore open a pack and lit up again.

'It's not unusual for a smoker to quit, not unusual at all,  and take it up again,' said Anne Landman