| Long ago I had a friend and she was a girl.(not an | | | | heavy smoker. |
| official Girlfriend). | | | | My dad got lung cancer. |
| Her mom smoked and worked during the day so | | | | After he got lung cancer he visited me; he was a |
| daughter used to pinch her smokes and shared them | | | | pathetic skin over bones man now, wearing a |
| with me. Both my parents smoked as well. | | | | corduroy suit, BUT STILL SMOKING IN MY GARAGE. |
| So off and on I got used to smoking; my smoking | | | | My brother's wife has breast cancer; my brother still |
| got a real boost when I became a sailor at the age | | | | smokes cigars. |
| of 17, because you could buy cigarettes tax-free | | | | I started having coughing spells at night and the |
| when you were outside territorial waters. | | | | vision in my left eye was deteriorating. |
| Over time I started smoking more and more | | | | Me quitting smoking? Impossible- I have no willpower. |
| cigarettes and had to get up a couple of times a | | | | Because I knew I could not quit I never even |
| night to have another nicotine fix. | | | | bothered to try. |
| Life without cigarettes was just not imaginable. | | | | So after a whole lifetime of smoking I was going to |
| Going on an airline trip was sheer torture because I | | | | die of lung cancer too. |
| could not smoke for a couple of hours. | | | | However, I managed to quit by using self-hypnosis. |
| We flew to Singapore once and I had a couple of | | | | On September 13, 2002 at 3 PM I took my last drag |
| smokes in the washroom in spite of the fact that | | | | and exhaled it through a Kleenex. |
| airplanes were already putting people in jail for | | | | That was my last cigarette. I have never even |
| smoking. | | | | thought about smoking. People can smoke around me |
| Over the years half of my mom's family died of lung | | | | and I don't give it a thought. |
| cancer. | | | | I no longer cough at night and the vision in my left |
| My dad's only sibling died of lung cancer. | | | | eye is fine now. |
| My mom died of a brain tumor-she used to be a | | | | |