· If you smoke or vape when you are angry, you lose twice.
· We are the richest we have ever been until we lose our health.
· Smoking is no vitamin C; it is more like vitamin Death.

· Health makes us happy. If we have that, everything else can come.

· Smoking is to the smokers’ happiness what artificial snow is to the athletes who never experienced the real flakes of a natural blizzard. (Fake snow is not winter, and smoking is a fake indicator of fulfillment.)

· Choose the transient moodiness of withdrawal over serious illness.
· Health is the most desirable foundation in our quest for happiness. In fact happiness is comprised of health, both physical and mental, which are connected to each other.
· Love your body every minute of the way. Be your best lover.
· Don’t rush life. Everything should have its own episode.
· I was smoking for so many reasons; all were wrong.
· Become a smoker with a cigarette without a cigarette.
· Post retirement goal idea: to die healthy and old; after 90 and peacefully asleep is my ideal.

· Both smoking and quitting are a matter of perspective – your own. (Put ‘able’ in ‘quitable.’ It looks good on you!)

· You can quit. I don’t say this because I wrote a book. It’s the other way around. I wrote a book exactly because you can quit. 

This book will work well on those who are open and willing to increase their life expectancy, but who need an extra kick. A (decision) tree has only a few thick branches, and each one of them grows in a myriad of twigs.

Smoking is a main branch. Its twigs can vary from various medical conditions, to accidental home fires, to anxieties, to a burn in your new couch, to your kids smoking, to waste of time, to money spent unnecessarily on cigarettes or on therapy, to a funeral or an oxygen mask. Cutting that branch in a timely manner will eliminate the undesirable ramifications concomitantly.

(Excerpt of Prologue)