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ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

Quitting smoking is NOT hard. I've done it dozens of times.

youtuber · Joined: 13 Sep 2009

mc_jc · Joined: 13 Aug 2009 Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I

There is no easy way to quit- it is as addictive as drinking, especially if the person is on edge alot.

Despite all the stress I have in my life, I am very thankful I never picked up smoking.
A good example of why anyone should stop smoking was a mother of one of my friends. When I attended my friend's funeral, his mother had to be wheelchaired into the funeral home wearing an oxygen mask. My friend used to talk about his mother all the time- how her hips and knees deteriorated and how her lungs and heart would give out every so often because she kept on smoking despite her condition and actually felt that smoking was the only thing that helped her cope with her joint pain as well as eased her suffering from being wheelchair-bound.
When my friend died and his father passing a little while after that, she was put into a nursing home because there was literally no one at home to take care of her.
My friend spent the last year of his life caring for his mother because he felt he had a familial obligation to take care of them. I find it very tragic that he died before he was able to really help his parents.