Great American Smoke Out

I have a lot of reasons to urge people who smoke to take the opportunity tomorrow to participate in the Great American Smokeout, which is designed to help smokers take just one day to show they can quit. A recent study showed that 2/3 of smokers in Missouri have a strong desire to quit within the next six months. There's no time like the present.
My mother smoked for over 60 years before a heart attack forced her to stop cold turkey. However, by then it was too late. She had advanced stage COPD. In her last year, I went to visit her and she was in her apartment crying. When I asked her what was wrong, she said that she had spent the entire day trying to fold a blanket to drape over the back of her couch. Although she was on oxygen, she kept losing her breath and had to sit down between folds. What would have taken a healthy person only a few seconds, was a major chore for her.
In the end, she hardly had the breath to go to the bathroom. It was excruciating for her, and it was horrible to watch her decline.
There's also the environmental impact of smoking, which not only pollutes the air of your loved ones, but the butts you leave takes decades to fully decompose.
So, please, do it for yourself. Do it for your loved ones. Do it for our earth.