Let us read This is an open letter to all those who are trying to quit smoking. I hope this will help at least some of them. I began smoking when I was only thirteen years old. I started because I wanted to be like my friends-confident and bold! In the beginning, I smoked once or twice a week. But slowly, that number increased. By the time I was fifteen, I was smoking as many cigarettes a day. Soon, my parents found out. They tried everything they could to make me stop. But I continued to smoke. They were very disappointed. At nineteen, I was smoking upto thirty cigarettes a day. I had also begun to feel a sharp pain in my chest. The doctor at my university told me that I had the I was lungs of a 40-year-old smo not even twenty