[Fawn]

Did anyone in here quit smoking? If so----why? Honestly.

[muir_redwoods]

"Did anyone in here quit smoking? If so----why? Honestly."

I quit because it's unhealthful, it stinks, it's expensive and it seems silly for a packet of weeds to control my life. I live in CT and worked on tobacco farms (yes we grow tobacco in CT) in my youth and there is possibly no fouler plant cultivated. It is sticky, smells awful and harbors invertibrate wildlife you wouldn't believe.

But to each his or her own.

[oh8eleven]

I smoked for about 15 years and quit in 1981. The primary reasons were smell, cost (even when only $1 pack), and the known negative health effects.

I took up running the same weekend I quit and have been running ever since - including three marathons in the late 80s.

[dakine]

Yeah...old age/need for wind....