Great post, simple but true and effective, I have been pondering this very idea, especially so, over the last month or 2, and your post has just reminded me that I need and want to also give up smoking.

I do not have kids to consider, but I do run and for a long time thought about how much better my running would be if I just stopped smoking. I too have realised just how stupid it is in this day and age to still be voluntarily poisoning ones body, with all the glaringly obvious disadvantages. More so the glaringly obvious advantages.

Aside from the obvious health benefits, I too realised just how wasteful it is to be burning up cash day after day in the pursuit of an early Death. The fact that your health improves, breathing is better your senses are all enhanced and brought back to what they should be, taste, smell, etc. should be reason enough.

So I would like to thank you for this post, however short it may be, it has managed to remind me of the promise I made to myself and I am actually going to start that journey right now :-)

Best of luck with your endeavour.
Keep us posted :-)

stay blessed, and blessing to you and your family.