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EGD This Morning

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎05-12-2017 06:31 AM

Smoking weakens the valve at the bottom of your esophagus and lets stomach acid back up into your esophagus which can, over time, change the cells of the esophagus to pre cancerous (Barrett's Esophagus with High Grade Dysplasia) which left untreated, can lead to esophageal cancer.

If you have heartburn often, please have it checked out and get under treatment. This type of cancer is one of the quickest and deadliest.

I don't know if they are cutting or burning this morning because they won't know until they get their camera down my throat to see how the last procedure worked..

No smoking in the OR 🙂

TTYL

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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.