I smoked my first cigarette when I was 13. The dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life. But in the 1950’s everybody smoked. Anyway, I smoked for 27 years, going through 3 packs a day for the last few years before I quit. I had tried to quit 1000 times before I heard at the age of 39 that if you quit by 40, your body still has the ability to recover to near that of someone who has never smoked. So on my 40th birthday I succeeded in quitting. The smartest thing I’ve ever done!
Now,…