There are some really touching stories here - and well done JayJay! Keep going.
I've never smoked *ahem* 'regular' cigarettes; somehow never got around to trying them, was never offered them by friends (boring lot, eh). And as an adult, never felt a huge desire to try them either ... and when I got to about 25, thought I might just stay cigarette-free. I do wonder, however, how much of that is due to my father, a heavy smoker, showing me what cigarette smoke does when I was about 13. He inhaled a lung-full of cigarette smoke and exhaled onto a large pad of cotton wool. The cotton wool turned dark grey/black instantly and looked vile. If you figured that all of that was going into your lungs in just one cigarette ... perhaps that's what kept cigarettes and I away from each other.
He gave up cigarettes a number of times and I'm not sure if he's still off them or has a few.
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