[SoldierDad]

I never plan to start up again. When I smoked I experienced Bronchitis at least twice a year. Since I’ve quit, I’ve had bronchitis once, and pnuemonia once. I don’t miss smoking in the least. My problem now is allergies, which I believe were made worse over the course of the 13+ years that I smoked. Airborne particulate matter from burning fields or forest fires seriously impact me.

[maryz]

allergies, which I believe were made worse over the course of the 13+ years that I smoked.

Actually, I was told by an immunologist that when you stop smoking, you can develop allergies that you never had before.

[Jim from C-Town]

Strangely enough, I breath easier than when i smoked, but the rest of me has gone to heck in a hand basket. I have had the worst and strangest health issues since I quit than at anytime while smoking.

Still, I miss it. It annoyed people and gave me something to do. I simply loved it and am only half kidding about starting again at eighty.