well, im right there with u all. my mother on july 5th was hospiatalized for phnemonia, but on the 7th said to be large tumor right upper lobe of the lung, on the 14th she had a biopsy, she went back to the hospital on the 24th b/c of small cell,but they said 10 radiations would shrink it n give her breathing room. well she had 3, and iam sorry we agreed to the 3 b/c on aug 5th she died, 4 wks from her diagnoses. i reli believe the radiation killed her faster, we stayed in the hospital the whole time 24/7 with her, she also had copd. wen she died i smoked so much more,but i have copd too. by the end of the summer i reli couldnt breath,long story short i quit on nov 1st 28 days now :)) its ruff but seeing my mother gasp for air and missin her so is ruffer, i have 4 kids who dont smoke thank god, but i want them to no im a strong women that wen the goin gets tuff we get goin, not that iam some week lil women. i want them to handle stress, if i show them a weak way well how will they ever learn. so i have no regrets to quitin other then the hand to mouth thing haha which is were the e cigg comes in, b/c i was thinkin of that too. not to use it as if i was smokin, only to get over these humps that im findin hard. and it sees the longer i go the better i feel and the better i feel the more i wana smoke ,go figure, stay atrong and hope we all reli do stay quit,joanne
