If you smell of cigarette smoke, you cannot teach a patient the value of quitting. I quit smoking 7 years ago and it is much easier to tell patients not to smoke. I am overweight, as most people are these days, and I know that it affects my ability to teach others the healthy benefits of a nutritious diet and exercise. I know that all of us know this, we just find it easier to say we don't care. I would rather have a president and a doctor and a nurse with high moral values, if it were possible. All my opinions and, I must say, now that I am 55, they are a lot different than when I was 25!