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RoseH
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‎08-06-2020 04:19 AM

You can quit smoking  Christine13  Can I suggest that you have a visit with your doctor and ask him, or her, for help?‌  Just hug that precious Ruby and she will love you back!  I am so happy you have her!

Do not buy, beg or borrow any more butts!  If you need help, all you have to do is ask!  I promise the cravings will get easier, if you just do not light up...

If I can quit after over 50 years of smoking, you can too, my dear friend!

I will send you my Quit Kit from the old Quitnet.com via private message...  Just copy and paste it and print it out...  it will keep you busy and smoke free!

And please remember that a craving usually lasts for ten minutes or less!  I believe that Brian would want you to take care of yourself and quit!  I will send you a copy of the book I read every day by Joyce Meyer, if you want it?  Just send me your mailing address...

We can do this, together, my dear friend!

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I was 57 years old and smoking like a chimney in September 2003. I was also having medical problems and upon my doctor’s diagnosis, I knew I had to quit smoking. I was scheduled and admitted to the hospital in October 2003. I had a total hysterectomy and was recuperating, when a nurse found me upset in my room and she told me to try to calm down, and take a deep breath… I could not take a deep breath! In fact, I had to be put on oxygen immediately! I was terrified. A medical specialist was brought in, and that is when I learned I had COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). My x-rays confirmed it, and the direct cause was smoking [since I was 15 years old]. I had double pneumonia as an infant, so my lungs were fragile, even when I was very young… I had to stay an extra week and they pumped steroids and antibiotics in my arm so I could breathe on my own, again. My nose got so sore with those oxygen cannulas in both nostrils. Hindsight is always 20/20. I should have never started smoking. However, peer pressure was awful when I was 15 years old. A few of my classmates dared me to light up and smoke one… I remember that first taste and how I coughed from the smoke. It was awful! But I wanted to “belong”, so I smoked until the addiction took hold of me! Back to the hospital room… I was terrified. I quit. I stayed that way for six whole months. My husband, Ed quit with me. We were doing great and then one day I said to him, “My life feels empty. Do you think we’ve got this quitting thing under control? Do you think we can have just a few a day? Before I could say another word, he was off in the car to buy some cigarettes… We both lit up when he returned, and I felt like my throat and lungs were on fire! I smashed it out and coughed! “I will never do that again!” But an addict’s lies are just that! Before long I was smoking over a pack a day again… The truth is that I had no idea how terrible the “addiction” to the drug Nicotine was. I smoked for another decade or two and each day I would tell myself that I would quit “tomorrow”. Don’t be as naïve’ as I was about this slowly killing addiction! Quit now! I would not be using two inhalers if I would have kept my quit way back then…