I'll read it, thanks for the reference!
As for motivation, I have plenty. My mother died of a stroke at age 53, and my late beau's been in a coma for the past 3 years. Smoking was a ritual for us, both started smoking very young and shortly before the stroke we started vaping together. But he had to make a trip, ran out of supplies (or maybe too lazy to fill cartos) and a stroke hit him 2 days shy of his return home. Since then it's a constant reminder that either I stop smoking NOW or I'm in the same path. Two months short of 50, the dangerous age is arriving where all you do wrong (drinking, smoking, painkillers, junk food, etc), and I'm much too aware.
Smoking runs in my mother's family. Everybody smokes, and we've been in and out of cigarettes several times. We could say there's a smoking gene, as well as alcoholism runs in certain families. I see my godfather, an elder man, sneaking to smoke in the bathroom. He's had two strokes, fortunately mild enough to get out of, but have taken the toll on his health. That's another reminder that I must quit.
But the most terrible, at least for me, was when my father got sick. I smoked a whole carton in barely 4 days. When I reached out for the last pack I was astonished. Vaping is expensive here, but I couldn't go on smoking at that pace. Too much risk.
I'll have a serious conversation with the other in the mirror. Tell her of all the risks we run if we don't give up smoking. It has worked in other ocasions...