A friend of my was suffering from Congestive Heart Failure. She gave up smoking and drinking alcohol and took up exercise and she seems to have beaten it.
My father died of it but I don't think he gave up smoking soon enough, never drank and was 75 years old and didn't exercise.
118 posted on 09/05/2016 1:32:58 PM PDT by Ditter
(God Bless Texas!)