[Ole Okie]

Every once in a while after, I’d actually have a nightmare that I was smoking again.

I quit cold turkey in 1992 from a two pack per day habit. I'd already had a severe MI and bypass surgery but kept smoking.

I finally quit in 1992, but came down with throat cancer in 1997. My doctor and oncologist both said smoking was nonetheless the cause. Surgery and radiation seems to have actually cured the throat cancer.

Then in 2005 I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The urologist said smoking was the cause. 13 years after I quit smoking, it still plagued me. Fortunately I haven't had a recurrence of that.

I also have frequent nightmares that I am smoking full bore again. I have absolutely no desire to smoke. But the nightmares wake me up and I just feel grateful I actually quit for good.

[Petruchio]

I quit in late 2002 after a MI and quad bypass. The 8 days sedated in ICU got me over the worst of it. I still ended up with emphysema and 2 years ago I lost half a lung to cancer.

[Don W]

If your aunt's cousin's brother-in-law's daughter's ex-husband's niece's boyfriend walked by someone who had a cigarette, that was the cause of your cancer.

Your doctors are grasping at straws when they tell you that something you quit doing 15 years ago has anything to do with your current illness. It is IMPOSSIBLE for them to prove a direct link between any tobacco use and any illness, especially after so much time has elapsed. There is correlation, but that is NOT causation.

See the W.H.Org's own tobacco study.

I personally quit 5 or so years ago, after 20 years as a 2+ packs/day smoker. I have since learned that just about everything the anti-smokers say is either a bald-faced LIE, or an exaggeration bent to suit their agenda.

Oh, and I still miss the weed, too, but I refuse to pay them one more red cent in taxes to propagandize against smoking.

[MsLady]

God bless you, I pray you never have cancer again!!! Have you had your vitamin D levels checked? They are linking a lot of cancers to low D. I also had breast cancer. Did I mention, I HATE CANCER. My D level was extremely low. Believe it our not, most American’s have low D. Either because of where they live, or because our lifestyles have changed over the years and we don’t spend much time outside, or if we do we are slathered in suntan lotion which blocks vitamin D absorption.