The reasons why I don't smoke tobacco anymore...

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I quit smoking early 2007. I just thought of doing it because I realize my body can't handle it much anymore. Due to the fact that I got bronchitis twice and notice some problems with my lungs hurting. So I just said no more. I don't miss - thank God I don't. Now when I see other people smoking I look at it like I remember when that was me. When I'm around friends and they smoke I kindly tell them not to spark it in front of me so that they can do it somewhere else. If some ever say they can't stop smoking I tell them yes they can because all you have to do is say to yourself no more and no. I've known people in my life that were heavy smokers - they ended up with heavy issues with lung cancer, throat cancer and bad teeth. I remember where we used to live there was a guy that lived upstairs next to us and just watching him die slowly due to the fact he was a very heavy smoker. I saw him dying, getting thin, so unhappy and hearing the time when he died. My dad had a friend he used to work for - she too was a heavy smoker - so much that her voice was so deep it sounded like she swallowed 1,000 frogs - it was that bad. She died a couple of years ago from lung cancer. My dad used to be a heavy smoker, but he too stopped a long time ago - with all his symptoms after having four bypass heart surgery and other symptoms - he can't do it no more. I can't do it no more and I'm glad I stopped. Remember it will creep up to you one day when you least expect it if you don't stop smoking. And I can say too for many years I have made excuses why I was smoking - because of stress? because it looks cool? No it just made me a fool realizing I was damaging my important insides that keep me breathing everyday. Those commercials about anti-smoking is no joke - whether you mock it, insult it or laugh at it - it will creep up to you one day and you'll end up saying, "You know what? I should quit or have never started smoking."