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[pipi_k]

17. I say the same

thing to all smokers as well...

Quitting is the best gift they can give themselves and their families, not to mention their wallets.

I quit in 1996.

I feel better all around, except that there was something in the cigarettes that did calm me down (read a list of the ingredients and I saw Valerian Root, so that's probably it), so I'm really not calmer, but anyway...

So about the cost...I honestly don't know how people can afford to smoke these days. By Mr Pipi and I both not smoking since 1996, we have saved so much money and have some really neat stuff we might not otherwise had been able to afford if we spent all that money on smoking.

And yeah...the stink. It was pretty much embedded in the walls of the house. Every so often I'll find some papers or whatever stored away before 1996, and they still stink.

Then there's the fact that so many of my family on my father's side died from diseases directly related to either cigarettes or alcohol.

Good enough reason to stop, I think.

anyway, congratulations on your cigarette-free years, and here's hoping others can enjoy a similar smokeless life someday.