You know, in all of the e-mails that we exchanged and the dozen or so phone calls we shared, I never heard him once sound anything but upbeat and positive.  Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to talk to him toward the end.  He often talked about the smoking, but I don’t know if he ever really seriously considered stopping……………….but, then again, he had a bit of a “tough row to hoe.”  Different people deal with stress in different ways- sometimes not in healthy ways.