After 43 Years, The Nicotine Habit Is Broken

The Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register ^ | 5-1-07 | Fred Connors

[Lx]

As my mom lay dying from smoking related causes I had a long talk with the respiratory tech and she said that basically, if you quit by 45-50, your body will rebound almost 100% in a few years, quit after that and the benefits go down.

Nevertheless, stopping smoking whenever has to help.

Good luck!

[mysterio]

In the next month, I’m done smoking.

[Tucker822]

My husband and I getting our first prescription of Chantix this Friday - our quit day is May 12.

We’re excited and ready.

I wish great luck to your husband.

[Ben Chad]

Thirty years after quitting, I think I still have some lung scars which manifest when boisterous laughing turns into coughing.

[stopem]

It really works, they have support calls daily.
Thanks good luck to both of you.

[advertising guy]

I knew a man who smoked five packs of Marlboro Lites a day

He quit

Got runned over by a t’bacca truck

[kanawa]

Thanks for the ping.

[TomServo]

I quit on December 8th, 2004.

2 hours before I had a heart attack and flatlined.

Haven’t had one since....

[ErnBatavia]

That’s about the time you relinquished your title as “Chief of Thread Cop Police”, IIRC!!

[TomServo]

LOL!!!!! Yeah....had to give up the badge and gun after that! :-)

[Zman516]

Good luck to all of you who are quitting.

It’s a helluva fight, but well worth it.

Your heart and lungs will thank you later.

[Hot Tabasco]

Thanks for the ping, picked up my presc. of Chantix today, tomorrow will hopefully be day one of a new life.....

I'm already trying to talk myself out of doing this. Strange stuff indeed.........

[radiohead]

My husband and I getting our first prescription of Chantix this Friday

Good luck to you. My stepfather died of lung cancer a couple of weeks ago. I understand him smoking up to the end, he knew the end was coming.

What I will never understand, and will never forgive, is my mother sitting there and smoking with him. I hope we don't have to go thru w/her what we went thru w/my stepfather.

[Ditter]

What a story! Any particular reason you quit? Premonition?

[ErnBatavia]

Ping me as to how it works for you....my doc gave me a PX for it after my physical 2 weeks ago, but I'm holding off due to the expense......that, and the fact that their literature indicates 30% of users can expect significant nausea (by my quick reading).

There are two things I really hate - and puking is both of 'em....

[Ditter]

My husband chews tobacco and the E&T gave him a prescription for Chantix yesterday. We just looked it up on the Internet and it says if you are on insulin and blood thinners you might not be able to take it. I guess he will have to speak to his diabetes doc before he takes it. Too bad, he has been wanting to quit chewing. It may be cold turkey for him.

[TomServo]

nope...I was suffering the heart attack during the two hour period.

didn’t want a smoke...;-)

I finally called my wife to take me to the hospital.

dropped dead 5 minutes after getting there. Doctor told me, ‘Yup - you’re having a heart attack’...then bang...

woke up with burn marks on my chest and the prettiest little nurse hunched over me and holding an oxygen mask over my face...

Thought I was in Heaven there for a moment...:-)

[Riverman94610]

My mom quit in 1980 with acupunture behind the ears!
She’s almost 90 now and I am almost certain she would not be with us had she not quit.
Cigarettes are vile.I did my share of drink and drugs in my younger days but at least I had half a brain enough to leave the nicotine alone.

[Eva]

Congratulations! My father was never able to completely quit smoking, even after a nearly fatal heart attack at 47 years old, that the doctors partly attributed to his smoking. When he didn’t die in the hospital, they sent him home, thinking that he would die shortly. He fooled them and got out of bed for the first time, six months later, and then started sneaking a smoke when he thought he could get away with it. He died at 51. It’s not worth it. Just stick with it.

[Ditter]

You are a luck guy! Did you have a near death experience? I have never talked to a person who had one, I have just read accounts and have always been curious.