Wellness

[RedTop]

At 62 years old, I have never smoked, nor had the curiosity or desire to.  I grew up in a family of heavy smokers, and I am married to a smoker.   My husband does not smoke inside our house.   

I wish I had a dollar for everytime I urged my parents and my husband to stop smoking.   My dad had COPD and was on oxygen, but died in the hospital from a common staph infection after colon cancer surgery.   

My 83 year old mother smokes like a chimney; she enjoys it and has absolutely no interest in quitting.   My husband also grew up in a family of smokers, and just like them, he uses smoking as his crutch.   I still don’t like his habit, but he does not smoke in my presence, or my vehicle.   As I’ve aged, I realize I don’t have to like the choices made by my family, but they are as free to make those choices as I am to make mine.   

[BalletBabe]

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

More People Die Each Year in the US From Smoking( nearly half a million)

than from

Murder, AIDS, suicide, Drugs, Car crashes, and Alcohol 

COMBINED

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Yet they keep selling them?  Go figure!  

[BalletBabe]

To all:   My husband was a chain smoker.  I never allowed him in the house or smoke near me.  I always told him if he wanted to kill himself go ahead, but he wasn't going to kill me.   He passed away March 6th of 2016.   Let me tell you all---it is a horrible way to die.  He never went to the Dr. and so he started ordering inhalers online.  (I had no idea he was doing it.)  The last two years of his life was awful!   He had no quality of life.  By the time I discovered what he was doing ordering online, and I finally got him to a Dr.  He had 23% of his lungs left.   

I am telling you all this because I made a promise to myself , that I would try to tell people that smoke to wake up.  The last week of his life he was not even able to walk to the bathroom.  He screamed all day Saturday. Passed on Sunday morning.   He sounded like a dog that let's out a yell when you step on it's foot.   Please if you smoke ---STOP   His sister was diagnosed with same thing COPD/Emphasema and died 1 year after he did.   His other brother now has it.

Cigs are about $$$$$$.  Think about this:  They are worried how large the soft drinks are at a movie theatre but yet , they continue to sell these cancer sticks. Do it if not for yourself , do it for your family.   

[tsavorite]

I suspect my very 1st breath was filled with cigarette smoke!  My parents smoked since they were 15 or 16yrs of age.  Back then you could smoke in hospitals and I am positive my father was chain smoking when born and took him into nursery to see me.  So everyone in my family has been exposed for many yrs.  Parents always smoked in home...at dinner table....in car (windows UP) windows in home closed.  I told people when they came over that my house was a FOG den....to hold your breath and we won't stay long so you don't begin to stink!

My Mom developed Emphysema....COPD and did stop in her 60's....but it made her very ill with constant lung infections/pneumonia and so on until she passed away....at 83.

My father didn't quit and smoked in the bathroom off the family room for 20yrs...you wouldn't believe what this tiny bathroom looked like!  It looked like a fire or a bomb went off...it was charred...the drywall was hanging down in peels all over ceiling to floor....what a nightmare to try and strip and fix that to sell home.

He finally stopped because he couldn't stop shaking...couldn't light up...couldn't walk or function....smoked almost 4 packs a day for until he was 84.  Passed away at 85.

He couldn't go 5mins w/o a cig....it was really awful to see my parents end up with this...I told my Mom so many times to quit.  She would watch Yul Brynner (remember him?) she loved him as a actor...he did a commercial for lung cancer awareness.  He was dying of it at the time/pass on when it aired and he was trying to tell people to stop smoking so you don't end up like him!  She'd watch him on TV and say that's so sad...but wouldn't stop herself or my Dad.  For her getting dx with COPD/Emphysema was the turning point...my Dad had it too but just didn't effect him as badly as her back then.  So he just kept on smoking.