Uniquestring's daughter here; I was playing on my dad's phone tonight and checked out his reddit page. It looks like he was quite active on this sub and I wanted to let you all know to keep up the good work, because cigarettes killed my father. He wasn't feeling well for a while, and at the beginning of June he started accumulating fluid in his abdomen and after a liver biopsy, it was determined that he had cancer in his liver. After further investigation, cancer was also discovered in his intestines, and as you might have guessed, it all originated in his lungs. Watching my brilliant father waste away and die so quickly has been the hardest ordeal I have dealt with. We lost him July 2, at 6:55 PM; the day before my mother's birthday, and 25 days before his 61st birthday. Please, stay quit, if not for yourselves, for the sake of your loved ones! I miss him so much.

Honestly, I just need a little motivation. A little push. Knowing that people actually support me would help. For every upvote this post gets, I'll go a day without smoking. It's pretty difficult and I've attempted many times but as of right now, I'm at my lowest point in my life probably. I smoke a pack of twenty in a day. Sometimes I resort to borrowing my friends for cash so that I could get myself a pack. Cigarettes in my country are expensive and it's really putting a hole in my wallet. Not to mention the horrible effect it's caused on my cardio.

Edit: Looks like it's gonna be at least a week without smoking. I hope that's enough for me to snowball right into a lifetime of being smoke free. I will continue updating on here. Here's to living a healthier life fellas

Edit 2: I'm sorry for offending those who think I did this for karma. I dont care about karma, I just wanted some support and motivation. I did not realise how many people would be willing to support a stranger. This will be my first day of quitting. I can do this.

Edit 3: 21/12/20. I am smoke free for 48 hours. This is miles harder than what I anticipated. I will push on and hope it gets easier.

I'm a basketball player ⛹️‍♂️ I love the game so much. I've been smoking and vaping for 12+ years, and lately l've noticed my stamina is in the dumps. It severely affects my ability to play the game I love dearly. People used to remark about how I was the hardest working player on the court with boundless energy. Nowadays, I can't run up and down the court more than twice before almost needing to sit down. I've tried to quit before, and l've had limited success, but nothing has lasted. I feel so ashamed. I feel just sad. I hope I quit for good and forever this time. This is hard.

I feel good; my breathing is free and full, I can walk easier, run easier and exercise is easier

I look good; my skin is brighter and smoother

I smell good; and I can smell myself and other nice things so much more

I sleep deeply; and wake up feeling refreshed in a new way

I’ve had two slips and smoked twice in this time, I chose not to reset so unlike this fine toad can’t quite say smoke free but

100 days since being a smoker and I am so happy.

I am 35 and had smoked since 14. Quitting for the last 5 years and the difference this time has been….

This community!! So thank you all you massive bunch of lovely strangers on the internet. You’ve improved my life and lengthened it. There is humanity in this world. Good luck today quitters, day 1 or 1000 you’re amazing!

Here's to being able to walk up hills, sing badly in the car at the top of my lungs, not stink, and most of all to hope that my life will not be cut prematurely short by addiction.

I'm not really sure what made this time different from the other dozen or so I had tried in the past but whatever it was, I made it. It's as fine an anniversary as I've ever had cause to celebrate; CHEERS to all you quitters!

EDIT: I work nights and fell asleep not too long after posting this. To wake up to so much encouragement really shows what a great community this little sub-reddit is. Thanks everyone!

I made this account just to post this. Kick these people out of here. They probably don't even smoke. And if they do, they more than likely have very little drive to quit. They're only using us for karma and that's annoying.

I didn't post this on my main account because I don't want to be a karma whore, but want this post to be seen. Message the Mods please and ask them to be good about deleting these karmawhore posts.

It's actually against the rules: https://www.reddit.com/help/contentpolicy

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Asking for votes or engaging in vote manipulation

You will never lit another cigarette again after reading this post. Why?

Because if you keep smoking, here’s what will happen:

You will start coughing a bit more than usual. No biggie, you’ll think, you cough often, you have been smoking for years, after all. But your wife will find it odd and urge you to see a doctor. You’ll call her crazy and paranoid, there’s just no way it can be anything. And the cough will stop, and you will tell her that oh you told her so, but on the inside, you will be relieved.

Until the cough returns months later, and she becomes concerned again. This time, though, you will listen to her. They will run a scan and you will be diagnosed with terminal, stage IV lung cancer.

But it’s not over yet, they will tell you, and there’s still a solid chance that you could live a couple of more years. Just enough to see your kids graduate. It will be terrifying, and you will think to yourself - Oh I am stopping for real this time! But you will still continue to smoke.

After every chemotherapy, even though you feel absolutely shitty and can’t even stand, you will find a way to inhale that poison once again. Your family will be so goddamn pissed, so you’re gonna start hiding it, thinking they must be so stupid that they can’t tell. And it will be like that, for a while…

… Until they put a draining tube into your lungs only a few months later, since they’re filled with water now. You will find yourself unable to breathe and the tube will hurt so much with every single breath. But you will still hold onto that hope the doctors gave you.

What the doctors didn’t know until they operated on you was that the tumor spread so much that there’s not a single spot in your lungs that hasn’t been infected. Soon enough, it will spread to your brain, and even sooner than that, you will start losing your mind.

You won’t recognize your kids. You won’t recognize your house. You will be so confused as to why you have to wear an oxygen mask at all times now. You will have moments of clarity, however, and in those moments, your eyes will be full of tears and regret.

Only weeks later, you will lose appetite and so much weight that you now can’t even recognize yourself in the mirror. You will struggle to stand, so your entire family will have to carry you to the bathroom. Your wife is going to drag the oxygen machine while your son holds your limp body over the toilet bowl and your daughter pulls down your underwear because you’re so weak you can’t even do that. All the while it’s happening, you won’t even be aware, which is maybe better for you, but for them, it’s the single most traumatizing thing they will go through.

Your son will have so many sleepless nights and will develop heart issues once you pass, while only in his early 20s. Your daughter will end up in therapy and will never be able to recall what you looked like before you got sick. Anytime she remembers you, all she will remember is your skeleton body and teary eyes, unable to say a word. That is why she will avoid remembering you. Your wife will never be able to say your name again without getting choked up.

You will be gone, but their trauma will stay. You will never see your daughter graduate. You will never meet your grandkids. And you won’t be in pain anymore, but the scar you left on them will never heal.

Dad, I love you and miss you. But I am still angry. The night you passed, you asked for a cigarette. You didn’t want us, you wanted and chose the very thing that killed you. You chose death before us. How can we ever be enough?

My dad died less than 8 months from his diagnosis. He didn’t get to retire. He had zero symptoms except for persistent cough. His oncologist said he was sick for years before he got diagnosed.

Please choose your life and your family.

This picture was taken before the journey cause i found this funny shirt in the closet prob belongs to my millenial sister or some friend of hers. Thought it suits this subreddit😂. Yesterday i went to my friends house he smoked a joint and i didnt gave in, had fun and raved with no substances.