When I was a kid it was quite common to smoke indoors. I guess no kids love doing the dishes, but what I really hated was to wash those little ashtrays. The smell of wet ashes was disgusting!
My dad quit smoking about a decade ago at his mother's funeral, without any pills, gums, stickers or toys. Just a man's decision, and a real man stands behind his decisions, as he says.
He started at the age of about 12, and even got it accepted by his father, because it made him feel less hungry. Getting cigarettes in Germany in the late Forties was easier and cheaper than getting food for a family with eight children... He is now 74, but due to his healthy manner of living, I still wouldn't win him in arm wrestling! OTOH I've always been a weakling...
Non smoking doesn't hinder social life, I've been going 'round the corner for a smoke with the guys since my schooldays without ever smoking myself.