“...And my wife quit smoking 3 months ago and I’m wondering now if that was a good idea rather than to just cut down and then gradually quit to avoid a system shock.”
My wife quit cold turkey in 1996 with absolutely no ill effects to date. I wish I could do the same. This article does make one wonder though.
I ceased smoking in the house twenty years ago along with in the car at the same time, and have always made certain to not smoke around others all because of the stink of the damned things. I’ve smoked for 47 years, but despise the smell of it, so I think if I don’t like it others don’t as well LOL.
Maybe you are doing them a favour.
If our ancestors almost always had some smoke around them, maybe light smokers have a therapeutic effect on those around them in modern times.
It’s for the children, you know. ;-)