[yobid]

My mother quit too only after she lost a lung. She died at the age of 59 from smoking related cancer.

[Kaslin]

My late twin sister was a heavy smoker. She had smoked for over 40 years. She visited us from Germany in the mid to late 90s. I had many fights with her because of her smoking. She lit her first cigarette of the day up at 4:00 am. To make a long story short, she died on March 2 2003 of lung cancer. She wrote me that she could not believe that she had cancer, because she quit smoking five years prior before she was diagnosed with the disease. Another thing is she started to feel better after she had chemo therapy but stopped without the doctor's permission and that was what killed her.

I am not saying that I never smoked. I did try it and after a while I noticed that I did not enjoy it. So I smoked less and less. The thing that helped me was that I never learned to inhale. One time though I tried to and after I took the first inhale it went like cough, cough. I took the cigarette out of my mouth saying to my self 'I don't need this'. I tore the cigarette up and threw the the pack away and that was in the mid seventies when we were stationed at Fort Riley, KS