Why and how you should quit smoking
53 years ago I had a friend and she was a girl.(not an official Girlfriend).
Her mom smoked and worked during the day so daughter used to pinch her smokes and shared them with me. Both my parents smoked as well.
So off and on I got used to smoking; my smoking got a real boost when I became a sailor at the age of 17, because you could buy cigarettes tax-free when you were outside territorial waters.
Over time I started smoking more and more cigarettes and had to get up a couple of times a night to have another nicotine fix.
Life without cigarettes was just not imaginable.
Going on an airline trip was sheer torture because I could not smoke for a couple of hours.
We flew to Singapore once and I had a couple of smokes in the washroom in spite of the fact that airplanes were already putting people in jail for smoking.
Over the years half of my mom’s family died of lung cancer.
My dad’s only sibling died of lung cancer.
My mom died of a brain tumor-she used to be a heavy smoker.
My dad got lung cancer.
After he got lung cancer he visited me; he was a...