Why I quit smoking??? Well, in the mornings I would wake up and then I would have #1 cig...THEN it would start... The coughing and gagging on disgusting "stuff"...so bad that I would often gag and literally 'upchuck' Then at the end of February, my mother, a previous smoker, took her last breaths. She used to plead with me to quit...I know now she is proud of me!! It is 30 days today!!!