I’m a former smoker, so, I might not count, but if I do - no. Quitting smoking was the hardest addiction I ever managed to stop. If a friend wants my advice on stopping, I’ll give it to them, but, I know how hard it is to stop, and for most people the pain of going through stopping just isn’t worth it. Anyone who smokes for long enough with other smokers knows that there is no shortage of people who are embarrassed by the addiction, and worry about being looked down on by others. Making judgements on others for consequences of a choice they made when they were most likely a kid is just not something I want to be a part of.

I haven’t smoked in 15 years, and I still have times where I miss it. Hell, I have a dream about once a month where I take up smoking again. I am really glad I stopped, but, I really got super lucky by what was going on in my life when I successfully quit, I had the support of friends and family, and everything was going right for me at that time. Had things not gone “just right” for several months in a row I am pretty sure I would have convinced myself to go to a gas station and torch all of that progress.

My dad is a heavy smoker and it makes me really sad that he is hurting not only himself, but the ones around him. Watching his health decline, the lack of energy, the terrible coughing just sucks… Beside poisoning himself constantly, he’s wasting money that could help both himself and my mom to retire or just in general live a better life. It really sucks. We have talked to him about it countless times, but he wants none of it. So we just have to watch him slowly kill himself. Smoking sucks