Thank you!

I did the math while writing this piece, and was started to realize I've spent more of my adult years as a non-smoker than as a smoker. (Minus my two-years of being smoke-free, I think I clocked about 13 years of smoking, versus 15 smoke-free since 2005.)

I'm very grateful that I was able to pull that off. Unfortunately, I have some old friends who have been smoking since the 1980s(!), and I can see (and hear) the toll it is taking on them, and also know through conversations that they feel almost powerless to quit.