I suspect that the people below had harder times just having to tell their spouse, parents, children, siblings, and friends the diagnosis and prognosis of their diseases than you had from quitting smoking. I suspect that the treatments that they had to endure trying to save their lives were harder than the times you had quitting smoking. I suspect that the three days following their death’s were harder for their family and friends than the first three days you encountered from quitting smoking. Quitting doesn’t lead to the worst days of a person’s life–not quitting and getting a smoking related disease does. These people’s stories are more powerful at clarifying this issue than anything else I can write…

March 16, 1999
A new mother's pride

Kim – Age 44

Kim in ICU on April 23, 2002

Read the 2006 tragic article The real cigarette induced "roller coaster" ride