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If You're Young~~~~~STOP SMOKING

JonesCarpeDiem
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Geesh

When you get old you start falling apart.

Wouldn't it be comforting to know you didn't cause it?

Did you know that smoking irritates the esophagus?

So, what do you think 40 years of smoking might do to it?

I was diagnosed with Barrett's Esophagus the end of May.

This is a precancerous condition caused by acid reflux and contributed to by smoking.

I also hooked up with diabetes and now stage 3 chronic kidney disease. (CKD)

I am going for "procedures" tomorrow. I lost 40% of my blood supply the end of May due to internal bleeding of my esophagus. Now, they must monitor the esophagus and create a baseline in case cancer has begun. Esophageal cancer is one of the quickest and deadliest there is.

Keep me in you thoughts tommorrow. They will be doing and endoscopy with biopsies and an esophageal ultrasound to create a baseline.

And a word to the wise about smoking.

STOP IT!

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.