Today And Forever
How Did You Start Smoking Quit smoking today? As much as I can't stand to be around smoking today, I can't believe that I ever started - I would guess that most people end up feeling that was after they quit. I look back through the years and that question in amazement, because I quit smoking for good when I was 25, after smoking for 12 years. Yep, that means like a fool I started smoking when I was 13 - why, I guess because the older kids were doing it, and I wanted to be cool like them. My dad smoked all his adult life - 3-4 packs of Pall Mall non-filters a day. He hacked and choked, and he huffed and puffed; he actually ended up getting adult asthma that was probably from it. And then the surgeon general's warning came out and he quit overnight. But not me, I didn't believe in that stuff - so as he quit I started. I eventually stopped smoking overnight. I got a really bad case of the flue and couldn't have smoked if I wanted to. I thre...