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April 13, 2006, 8:28 pm PDT
 Quote From: bam2468 Hello everyone. I am a 32 soon to be 33yr old woman. I have been smoking since I was 13 years old. I have four children. When I was pregnant with each of my children I was able to quit smoking with no problems at all. Never thought twice about wanting to smoke when I was pregnant but a few months after the baby was born I would start again. I had my last child 7 years ago and don't plan on having any more. But in these 7 years I have been trying to quit over and over again. Longest has been 3 months. I have my next date to quit which will be on April 17. I am going to try the patch again religiously. I know I have to be successful this time and will try my hardest. It makes me angry that I am having so much problems with quitting. I look at a cars exhaust smoke and think of I my as well be sucking on that exhaust pipe. My husband is also a smoker which will make it harder because he just can't quit. I wish he would also try. His mother past away a few years ago from lung cancer. Bam2468 My question to you is how old was your mother-n-law when she passed away? Take that age and subtract it from your age, that's probably how many more years you have with your children !!!!!! I don't mean to sound harsh, but smoking is something you don't come out winning. I too started at an early age (16) and smoked till I was 49, when I diagnosed with lung cancer. At that time I had a son 9 years and a daughter 27. I felt I had our daughter well on her way in life, one day seeing her get married and have children, but there was so much I wanted to teach my son about life he was only 9, and I had just cut it short with my cancer. There was no two ways about it, that my smoking caused the lung cancer. Through a lot of praying and I mean alot of praying and the removal of a whole lung, I got a second chance. But I had to gamble again with the smoking after my surgery for at least 1 year, age 50 and a closet smoker. If that wasn't twisted. But the patience of this board showed me the way. And now I'm smoke-free for one whole year, longer than I ever was smoke-free before. My lungs so far are cancer free to this point. A tear drops from eyes reading what I have wrote to you. You have so much in life, your children and but most important you have you. With you, they are have it all, without..............
Linda
One year, two weeks, 3 hours, 20 minutes and 17 seconds. 11374 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,200.90. Life saved: 5 weeks, 4 days, 11 hours, 50 minutes. |
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