one week without smoking cigarettes Eight years ago today, I smoked my last cigarette. Looking back, I never could have imagined where that decision would lead me. Quitting wasn't just about putting down cigarettes—it was The Many Benefits of Quitting

(In an attempt to make a learned joke, I once looked up the names of people possibly crushed to death by bookcasesthe Basra-born polymath Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr ibn Mahbub al-Kinani al-Fuqaymi al-Basri al-Jahiz, the French virtuoso Charles-Valentin Alkanbut I never worked up the courage to tease, terrified that Klaus would generously ask my thoughts on Mutazilism, perpetuum mobile , or the topics of numerous other links pointing outward from these figures

7 While modern medications may so far be helping most of us avoid major effects of climate change on our asthma, the US Global Change Research Program projects a worsening of asthma in a 2014 graphic, in part due to increased atmospheric ozone, causing increased symptoms 8 , and an increased incidence of asthma in the 2018 report

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But instinct takes over, and I let go

Staying clean in 2020 is a recovery resolution for me