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Annual CT Scans for lung cancer have been suggested and will soon be covered as standard medical practice.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-31-2013 07:36 AM

They can detect even the tiniest of lung cancers which are then treatable.

WHAT WONDERFUL NEWS!

It is suggested for anyone who currently smokes a pack a day for 15 years or those who smoked a pack a day for 30 years or more and quit, even 15 years ago.

There is damage people. Just because it hasn't shown itself or they haven't been able to find it yet doesn't mean years of smoking hasn't taken a toll and weakened or damaged the lungs.

Some will say, "well why quit then?"

Until you are free of smoking, you cannot know how wonderful it is to be out of slavery to it.

It controls your life and you don't even know it.

Think about the times you had to leave an event to smoke and missed something great.

Think about all the times you've avoided going places because they didn't allow smoking.

Think about the times you've had to hunt for a place to get your fix as the no smoking laws have taken over.

Then,  tell me you are not it's slave.

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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.