Ask A.J. is Slate’s advice column on addiction, recovery, and how to hate yourself less. Submit a question here. It’s anonymous! Dear A.J., I started smoking in high school and successfully ...

Then, I got sober, and quit smoking not long after. I got back in touch with my voice and my love of music. I fell in love with singing when I was 11, ...

I wake the next morning with ashtray mouth, but I have 15 cigarettes left. At $13 a pack, I’m smoking them. My addict jumps in, “ It’s OK, you’ll quit tonight. No one will ever know.

It’s not every day that a CEO of a major corporation voluntarily warns potential consumers against using his or her product. But underage consumers are a special case. “Don’t vape… ...

Charlie Kondek started smoking at about 17 or 18, "trying to be James Dean," he says. Shortly after graduating from college, he knew he wanted to quit. Now 37, he's a married father of two and a ...

At the time, my act of quitting smoking seemed like a small decision in the great scheme of things. I saw it as “getting back to who I was” rather than a great leap forward in my life.

But when smoking started to affect my stamina and endurance, I knew it was time to quit for good. It really hit me at the end of a two-minute dance routine one day, when I doubled-over, wheezing ...

I finally quit smoking! And it's paying off. Julia Vergin. 10/10/2019 October 10, 2019. I lit my last cigarette eight weeks ago.

"Yeah, I think he needs to quit smoking if he is going to run for president." Added Sue Wycoff of St. Paul, Minn., "having a daughter who died from lung cancer, we kind of feel strongly that ...

I quit smoking on New Year’s Day 2024. Three days later, I buy a pack of cigarettes. The addict who’s lived inside me since I was 17 knew I would.