I quit smoking

[cat_mioux]

7 days ago.

Don't talk to me. Don't even look at me.

*cat stomps off into the kitchen to eat to eat something*

[cat_mioux]

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@imastawka wrote:

(Not replying to anyone in particular)

 Well what a happy thread this has turned into - not!

 Can't people just encourage without mentioning all the

horrible suffering and deaths they've witnessed because

of smoking?

 I was diagnosed with emphysema 4 years after giving it up.

So now I get reminded about what a horrible death I'm gunna have?

Great

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imastawka I'm sorry to hear this thread is upsetting you.

I was diagnosed with very early emphysema a few years back after being admiited to ER for an asthma attack. I coped with the news by not thinking about it.

Research as much as you can so you can reduce those fears of a 'horrible' death. Many people with emphysema live long and productive lives with the right treatment i.e medication, exercise, preventing a flare up.

[silverfaun]

Good on you, I hope you are feeling a bit better. If you can manage to switch your mind off then that's a great help but easier said than done.

3 years since I quit and I still miss it sometimes, I think about it when I smell smoke, funny thing is smelling  cigarette smoke doesn't repulse me at all I just feel so sorry for the smoker.

I did a breath test at the doctors and my lung capacity has gone up to 98% it used to be 78%, I got off scot free.

[cat_mioux]

PS

Sadly, smoking equals smoking related illnesses. Not all smokers are affected, we all know someone who knew someone who smoked for years and died being run over a bus when they were 101 years old.

I didn't quit for my health. All those scary stories and photo's just made me more stressed. I think everyone is different and what works for one person doesn't work for another. I hate drugs and I hate what addicted does. When I realised I was addicted to a drug that did it for me.

[sandypas]

I'm sorry you are upset imastawka.

It's probable that if you haven't got any worse since your diagnosis, it will not progress any further now you don't smoke.

Lung cells are damaged by the smoking and I don't think it will get worse unless you smoke.  In my father's case, he smoked from 12 (started work at 12) until an old age so the damage was done when he was diagnosed, plus the rubbish he probably smoked in those days was probably full of chemicals.

I get asthma and have lung problems so maybe I have a bit as well - no good worrying as if that is the case it was self inflicted and whatever will be will be.

Have you been assessed by a lung specialist.  There may be new treatment since you were diagnosed.

All the best anyway.

[imastawka]

I was diagnosed with very early emphysema a few years back after being admiited to ER for an asthma attack. I coped with the news by not thinking about it.

Ditto for me. There's not a lot anyone can do.

I just prefer not to be reminded

I wish you the very best in your quest to be an ex smoker  : - )

[imastawka]

 Been assessed recently.

So far their medications (and the stupid lung test) have made it worse.

I can breathe better without them. I found the lung capacity test to be

extremely painful and I think it did more damage than anything else.

I have no breathing difficulties ATM so prefer to ignore the problem.

I do use asthma medications though.

I didn't want to hijack ms mioux thread though, so will leave it at that   : - )

[joz*garage]

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@cat_mioux wrote:
It's been interesting ... when I tell someone who smokes I have quit, you can hear the fear in their voice. Some smokers 'scoff' or snigger at me saying 'yeah right, that won't last long'.

Some smokers fear the following:

They know the quitters are jumping off the sinking ship.
The more people who quit the more stupid they'll look puffing on their cigarettes.
They'll be treated more and more as 'lepers' (that's sad 😞 because that increases fear which in turn makes a person want to smoke more) and they'll have fewer places to 'legally' smoke.

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what a load of rubbish

[cat_mioux]

It's fantastic you don't have breathing difficulties. It sounds like you'll be fine going along as you are. 🙂

I suspect so many more people have E but don't know it.

You and I have done the best thing possible for ourselves and we need to give ourselves lots of kudo's for that!

[cat_mioux]

Have another ciggie Joz

[joz*garage]

7 days hey, give her a cigar