Why I want to Quit Smoking
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I want to live a long healthy and productive life.
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I don’t want to be strapped to a ventilator when I am 40.
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I don’t need cancer in my life.
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I am broke as it is, and the cost of smoking is not helping.
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I would rather spend my money on other things.
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I want to run an ultra marathon in my life.
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I want people to be able to smell my cologne and not a disgusting mixture of camels and dolce and gabanna.
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I want to wake up without my lungs hurting.
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I want to make my friends and family proud.
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I don’t want to be a slave to an addiction any longer.
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I don’t want to be a statistic.
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I want my car to smell nice.
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I want to go on the balcony to get fresh air.
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I want to break the vicious cycle in which I am not constantly in a mode of craving.
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I don’t want to be a slave or an addict.
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I don’t need this in my life at all.
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I want to set a good example.
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I want to be a doctor who is not a hypocrite.
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I don’t want my teeth to be yellow.
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I want to be free of this.
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