cigarettes can cause Pictures on cigarette packs, warning of smoking dangers, increased quit attempts among smokers FDA reveals proposed graphic warnings

In short: Yes, quitting smoking can cause depression, and in fact, its quite common to experience mood changes after you quit

It feels like a direct, almost accusatory, question to someone no longer present, or perhaps even a question to oneself about a missed opportunity or a lonely state of being

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When I was writing my own smoke-cured novel, The Butt , I went looking for the line to use as a frontispiece quote, but unable to find it had recourse to this one instead: Who knows, whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined