Smoking is a very bad habit, one I was lucky enough to kick. Tobacco anyway. I am here to answer your questions 
I'm glad you kicked the habit. What made you quit?
I think the fact that I knew it was so unhealthy, and it smells bad. It contains over 50 chemicals, and those not only hurt your health, but also stain your teeth. 
Gross.  Yes, I thinking I would be worried about cancer with smoking.  Was that on your mind?
It was, but I never thought I would smoke long enough for that. I thougth more about how there was a mix of aerosol particles and gasses all mixed together.
I didn't know that.  How long did you smoke?
spiritual enlightenment.
Smoking generally has negative health effects, because smoke inhalation inherently poses challenges to various physiologic processes such as respiration. Diseases related to tobacco smoking have been shown to kill approximately half of long-term smokers when compared to average mortality rates faced by non-smokers. Smoking caused over five million deaths a year from 1990 to 2015.
Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use. Tobacco smoking is the most popular form, being practiced by over one billion people globally, of whom
"Giving Up the Ghost". Although she lost her religious faith at age 12, she says it left a permanent mark on her: "[the] real cliché, the sense of guilt. You grow up believing that you're wrong and bad. And for me, because I took what I was told really seriously, it bred a very intense habit of introspection and self-examination and a terrible severity with myself. So that nothing was ever good enough. It's like installing a policeman, and one