Dear johnb838,
"I hope I don't get a smokers disease because the i told you so's are likely to be worse than the disease itself."
My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer in September, 2003. They told her maybe she had 3 - 6 months. She was one of the luckier ones.
She was dead 28 days later.
It wasn't a fun-filled four weeks.
The "I told you sos" aren't worse than the disease.
sitetest
I watched my Mom gradually lose the ability to breathe, move, or fight off infection AFTER she quit, She had RA, but the breathing problems certainly didn't help anything.
Again, when I thought about it happening to me it scared me half to death, still does, then made me want something to comfort myself, which usually was something self destructive.