Just had my last cigarette.

[CFH]

I had my last cigarette 11 yrs ago...

I smoked heavy for well over 2 yrs. I only smoked Djarums.
1 to 2 packs a day everyday.

One day I just stopped. I don't even know why I stopped I just did.
Maybe I had several reasons to and I can't pin point one.
I know family and friends would comment on the smell and on several occasions I though about my health so I'm certain it was a mixture of a couple things.

Good luck.

I know why I quit. One day I was sitting on the shitter and I hacked up a quarter-sized wad of half-congealed blood. Watching that shit run down my hand and drip on to the floor was enough for me.

I had smoked for about 10 years at that point.

That'll do the trick...

That's really bad. I hope you got yourself to a doctor CFH!

Having recently read an Orwell biography the coughing up of blood and weakened lungs is something that kept on recurring. Good thing you quit, Orwell seemed to have a bit of a death wish with his total disregard for his own condition and eventually he paid the price. One lung remaining? Heck, light another one and let's swig the booze under the hospital matress! I guess cigs were not looked on like they are today. All added up though, he didn't really help himself. He even hid his condition whilst trying to complete 1984 and that likely took him beyond any point of real return. He realised it in the end.

Yeah, quit cigs all of you! They can be devastating.

Yeah, I had xrays done to make sure there wasn't any cancer and they all came back fine. It was a long time ago and I haven't experienced any related problems since, so I think I'm in the clear.

I used to live in a very Orwellian fashion, but I kept smoking for a long time after I had quit most of the other stupid things I was doing and hacking up that blood scared the shit out of me.