I smoked, quite 10 years ago. Felt worse after quitting :) Mom quit a year after me. Horrible habit, I quit many times between 1989-1995, should have stayed quit... One of my brothers smokes and chews, hope he quits before he has problems.
It took me getting mouth cancer to quit. I’m recovering from the surgery, have a hard time eating and talking. Smoking is a bad addiction and hard to break, but definitely not worth what I’m going through now.
Having never smoked, it’s easy to say one should never start. My sister who had the aneurysms stopped cold-turkey, and never smoked again. But it didn’t do her any good anyway since she died from lung cancer anyway. I’m surprised I never even tried it seeing as everyone else in my family smoked. I couldn’t stand the smell, and especially hated the sight of dirty ashtrays, and the smell that came from them. I sang in the choir when I was in grammar school (in the early 50’s). I always knew my mother was in the audience when I heard her cough. What a way to recognize your mother in a crowd? My parents smoked Camels their whole lives. The rest of them smoked filtered cigarettes.