It's a mild dreary rainy morning with temps 42 ° F or + 6, yay we are finally on the + side of the celius scale. I hope everyone will have a wonderful day , I am extra happy today because after 40 yrs of smoking I am celebrating 9 months of being an EX SMOKER and that really makes me smile. I honestly never thought I could quit smoking but when I found out last July that I have copd which scared the crap out of me because I thought I was fine. My husband will have a year in on the 25th of this month now I was really worried about him before he quit because he had 2 sets of chest xrays and a cat scan on his lungs, he quit smoking for a month after the cat scan and before he even seen the doctor to know that the spots on his lungs was the beginning of emphysema. So I smoked for 2 and a half months longer than my husband thinking I was ok until a specialist was checking a nodule that he's monitoring on my thyroid which is fine he decided to listen to my lungs because he knew that I smoked and didn't like the sound of my lungs and set up a breathing test which showed up mild COPD, so I set out to pick a quit date with the help of this site which I was lucky enough to find . I picked the 7th of July but when that date came I wasn't ready so I picked the 14th of July and here I am celebrating 9 precious, stupendous, fantastic, fabulous, amazing and wonderful smoke free days and countin. To everyone new on tthis site believe me quitting smoking is absolutely doable, have faith in yourself because you can do anything that you put your mind to .
Marilyn
