Why I want to Quit Smoking

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  1. I want to live a long healthy and productive life.

  2. I don’t want to be strapped to a ventilator when I am 40.

  3. I don’t need cancer in my life.

  4. I am broke as it is, and the cost of smoking is not helping.

  5. I would rather spend my money on other things.

  6. I want to run an ultra marathon in my life.

  7. I want people to be able to smell my cologne and not a disgusting mixture of camels and dolce and gabanna.

  8. I want to wake up without my lungs hurting.

  9. I want to make my friends and family proud.

  10. I don’t want to be a slave to an addiction any longer.

  11. I don’t want to be a statistic.

  12. I want my car to smell nice.

  13. I want to go on the balcony to get fresh air.

  14. I want to break the vicious cycle in which I am not constantly in a mode of craving.

  15. I don’t want to be a slave or an addict.

  16. I don’t need this in my life at all.

  17. I want to set a good example.

  18. I want to be a doctor who is not a hypocrite.

  19. I don’t want my teeth to be yellow.

  20. I want to be free of this.

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