I fucking quit...

[Aroura]

My mom smoked while pregnant with me, and all the time while my brother and I were growing up. I remember her coming into my room with a stack of freshly washed laundry and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.Ugh, nothing was ever really clean, and kids teased me for reeking like an ashtray.

My dad now has emphysema, even though he quit at age 30, from being around the constant second hand smoke of my mom and grandmom. I suspect I will die of lung disease someday, myself. I was basically an addict from birth, so naturally started smoking in my teens. I struggled with it for years, but have been nicotine free for almost a decade now.

Congrats to both of you for quitting! It really is like being let out of prison, it is so freeing in so many ways.

Yes, we will all die someday, but I try not to actively contribute to my own slow, painful suffocation. Leonard Nemo begged his fans to quit, or never to smoke, before he left us. All hail Spock, and don't smoke, and don't fall for all this new tobacco rebranding crap.