Smoking Kills

Today is National No Smoking Day 2009. Having just come back to my desk from having a smoke in the garden I got to thinking about a conversation I had with my seven year old aspergers son the other day. It went something like this:
'Mummy, why do you still smoke when it says Smoking Kills on the packet?'
'Ah that's the problem with addiction you see. It over-rides common sense. Do you remember me telling you what addiction means? It means that when you try to stop doing something that you are addicted to you end up feeling poorly.'
'Well surely it's better to feel poorly for a while than end up dead'
Out of the mouths of babes!
So as I sit here on the day itself, three days off marking the third anniversary of my fantastic dad's death from emphysemia (caused by smoking) and with my little boy's words ringing in my ears I ask myself why I don't listen to his words of wisdom and just feel poorly for a short while rather than smoke myself into an early grave?