When I smoked, I knew what I was doing and what was going in my body. I made myself stop because as toxic as cigarettes are, they aren't deadly until you've smoked them for decades. And I figured that things that stress me out now aren't worth getting cancer for when I'm 40, married with kids and a better career and life than I have now.

But I guess I'm young so it's easy for me to be reckless and not care one day, and then decide to care the next day.

Good thing about quitting smoking is that the negative effects don't take as long to reverse as they do to kick in. 17 days smoke free, and I can hardly tell that I smoked.