Re: Congrats on stopping smoking !!!

I agree. The docs told me that smoking probably contributed to my bladder cancer. Then I had to start seeing a pulmonologist because they saw something suspicious in my lungs (it turned out to be nothing but it took them almost a year ot monitoring to determine that). My dad died of lung cancer twenty years after he stopped smoking so that made me very nervous. And then COVID-19 came along and there were so many people dying who couldn't breathe, plus there was my grandson. We never, ever smoked around him but we DID smoke in our house when he wasn't there. BUT... I felt guilty whenever he came to my house because it just reeked of stale nicotine and I knew he was breathing that crap, Even now my walls are all yellowed and nasty from years and years of us smoking. To quite, first I made a list of all the reasons I should stop smoking and all the reasons I should keep smoking. It was a no-brainer what to do. One of the hardest things but one of the best things I've ever done. I've not had a puff since, although I'd be lying if I said I haven't been tempted. I just wait for a couple of minutes and the desire passes.

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