&gt;&gt;I lost 20 years of healthy life for a wasteful addiction and it started in 1991 when I was 16.<p>Do you mean you smoked for 20 years, or that you lost 20 years of lifespan due to smoking?<p>If it&#x27;s the latter, I remember reading in a medical study that the adverse health effects of smoking are mostly reversed several years after the person stops smoking. :)