Today is 23 months since quitting smoking, for anyone reading this don't you think it's about time to make this your precious forever quit while you are still vertical, I honestly look back at my life the last couple of yrs while I was still smoking and can see the signs of copd, but in my stupidity thinking I was fine and was totally invincible that smoking problems happen to other people but not me, talk about being in denial. Thank goodness that my husband Mark saw his doctor and had chest xrays and a wk later was called to have another one with the markers on the nipples to avoid any shadows, so we were told but we were getting nervous because my hubby coughed and hacked so bad at night that I would lay awake making sure he caught his breath, anyway we got another call for him to have a cat scan by the time he saw the doctor he was quit for a month and found out he had the beginning of emphysema whoo Hoo, now he's been done for over two yrs, quitting is difficult but anything worth having in life is very doable. Me in my stupidity kept on smoking outside of course because neither of us smoked inside for well over 10 yrs maybe longer, thankfully I had an appointment with a specialist that didn't like the sound of my lungs and set up a breathing test which showed mild Copd which shocked me and scared me into realizing that I wasn't invincible, my husband smoked 42 yrs, I smoked for 40, many people here have smoked for 50 or more and the one thing that we all have in common is we have quit smoking and remain vigilant while enjoying our freedom, if we can do it anybody can and it's so worth it, so now is the time to take back your life because your life is literally is in your hands.
Marilyn 701 DOF
