Your kids are going to thank you for having stopped smoking ;)

If you need a little motivation, read the next sentence. But be aware, it is nothing for thin nerves.

Around a year ago, when I worked at a lung department of a local hospital, I met a woman at 28 with lung cancer in the final stadium.

She had two kids, four and two years of age. One of the sadest things I ever heard a human say was the following sentence I heard out of her mouth: "I will never see my kids on their first day of school - I will be dead by then. And the sad thing is - it is probably my own fault"

No, fortunately not every smoker gets lung cancer and even more fortunately it's rather uncommon at age 28.

And yes, she probably had a genetic risk of getting lung cancer.

But she also had smoked way over one pack of cigarettes since she turned 14 and at least that's what she blamed in the end.

While I have no proof that the smoking got her that sick - There is plenty of proof it definitely boosted her risk.

Damn, this got a little longer than I wanted it to be. I am not here for telling horror stories - this is just one (and the most impressing) personal destiny associated with smoking I have witnessed live so far. If it is for me, I don't need to see anything worse...