After a few days of limiting his smoking, Eisenhower decided that counting his cigarettes was worse than not smoking at all, and he quit. He never had another cigarette in his life. ...

Oct 22, 2020 · Chugging coffee, chain-smoking, and pacing was how he dealt with the pressure. When he was awaiting word on that first troop transport’s arrival in Sydney Harbor, …

Feb 26, 2025 · Eisenhower might have quit smoking at some point, but he never put down a cup of coffee, even after his first heart attack in 1955. Some observers say he drank as many as …

Oct 14, 2018 · Eisenhower smoked three or four packs of cigarettes a day, picking up the habit while he was a student at West Point and quitting only a few years before he became President.

He began smoking cigarettes at West Point, and his habit increased so that he often smoked two or three packs a day. A famous photograph taken prior to D-Day shown him having a smoke …

DETROIT, Jan. 30 (AP)—Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower broke the smoking habit by keeping his pockets stuffed with cigarettes. Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh of Detroit says that …

In March 1949, six years before Eisenhower’s first heart attack, Dr. Snyder had told him to reduce his smoking from four packs of cigarettes per day to one pack. However, Eisenhower quickly …

Dec 23, 1993 · According to the Tobacco Institute, the mouthpiece for the tobacco industry, Dwight Eisenhower smoked cigarettes, as did Lyndon Johnson, the last active, daily cigarette …

After 38 years of smoking, he quit—cold turkey. “The only way to stop is to stop,” Eisenhower would tell an aide, “and I stopped.” This story is in Discipline is Destiny .

May 13, 2013 · In 1949, before he became president, Eisenhower’s personal physician advised him to cut back to one pack per day. After a few days limiting his smoking, he decided …