TY - JOUR T1 - Smoking cessation and COPD: further evidence is more necessary than ever JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.00466-2017 VL - 49 IS - 5 SP - 1700466 AU - Lucy Wood AU - Jennifer K. Quint AU - Joan B. Soriano Y1 - 2017/05/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/49/5/1700466.abstract N2 - For twelve years I had been trying to give up smoking. As Mark Twain said–and who does not know the remark? –“It's nothing to stop. I've quit a hundred times.” I used to feel I had said it myself, for certainly I had tried on ten times ten occasions, once for a year, once for nine months, once for four months. Over and over again I gave them up, a hundred times over the years, but always I went back. For in my dreams, sooner or later, I struck a match, brought flame to the tip, then took in all my hunger for existence with the first puff. I felt impaled on desire itself–those fiends trapped in my chest and screaming for one drag. Change the given!Smoking is bad for your lungs; quitting is good, anytime, anyhow http://ow.ly/5KHL30b0YXL ER -