Re: taming my last demon (smoking)

Posted by Mark - IN. on October 12, 2011 at 18:36:38 from (67.162.116.67):

In Reply to: taming my last demon (smoking) posted by tempola on October 12, 2011 at 07:34:37:

I quit cold turkey two years ago. I'm 51, smoked a pack a day for about 30 years.

Here's how happened. They now treat cigarettes with some ADDITIONAL chemical that causes them to extinguish if we don't keep puffing on them to keep them going, so that they don't cause fires. OK, like you and many, I enjoyed smoking. Bad for me, us, but still enjoyed and did it. But I noticed a difference once that chemical was introduced, because I found myself smoking harder and faster so they didn't go out, and that was unhealthy for me, and I noticed it, but kept smoking anyway, despite the constantly increased taxes for the kids, the trees, tax increase, tax increase, tax increase of a legal product to make money off of me, at the same time condemned me, us, but took every penny they could.

This was the back breaker. A fella I work with came back to work after being off about 9 months on disability. I knew he got sick, but didn't know what happened. He came back, I ran into him, so I sat him down to ask what happened. He had a quadruple bypass, and smoked like me, us. He told me went to bed one night, but woke up because couldn't breath. Ended up sleeping comfortably downstairs sitting up in a Lazyboy. Next night, same thing. Couldn't breath, got up, downstairs to the Lazyboy, but couldn't get his breath back. Barely made enough sound to wake his sleeping wife upstairs, but did. She took him to the ER, and he said he didn't catch a breath the whole way, and said it was as though he was dying slowly, painfully all the way there, passing out at the door in the car, on his way out of this world to death. Woke up in the hospital, quadruple bypass. Showed me the scar. THAT NIGHT, ALMOST THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME. I went to bed, fell asleep, woke up and my throat had closed as though someone was standing on it, and I could not breath until I sat up and bent over. Was scary. Smoked the next day, not nearly as much. Next night, same thing. Fell asleep, woke up like someone was standing on my throat, couldn't breath until sat up, bent over. I quit smoking right then and there, and it all cleared up. I did light up a week later, but only because was out cutting trees down and when took off my clothes, had three ticks embedded in me. I lit up a cigarette from that pack that sat where I set it down a week earlier, and tried to heat up near the ticks to back them out. Darned cigarette kept going out because of that no-burn chemical, so ended up picking the ticks out with a sewing needle, which is the wrong thing to do. At that point, those cigarettes became useless to me. I let that open pack set there a half year, and one day finally tossed them.

Since I quit, I have only had the urge to light up once, and it was a strong urge that lasted all day. I went to sleep for the night, woke up the next day, not an urge since. Now I ride a bike from time to time, walk more, take the steps over the elevator when I can, partly because I also became a diabetic about a year ago. Went temporarily legally blind for about a month over that one. That could've and would've cost me my job if it persisted. Eyeballs swell when you become a diabetic, throws off vision, and the worse you are, the blinder you get. In about two months, just that fast, everything went to crap, and went legally blind for about a month. Have lost weight, eat better, sight is back 20/20 without that $1,000 pair of glasses it cost me that didn't work when they got delivered a month later when my vision was clearing up, and I am off all medications, PERIOD. My doctor looks at and checks me and can't believe it. I can...I don't want to go blind or have body parts cut off because of gangreen caused by diabetes. I want to live a long healthy catancerous life. I still check sugar levels every morning, every night, and may forever. Feeling much, much, much better these days.

To all here and everywhere, I will gladly share my screwups with you, so that you do NOT make the same mistakes that I did.

Much good luck to you and all that make the move.

Mark

PS: Doc says that my chances of remaining smoke free are much better because quit cold turkey. Says patches, gums, etc have a tendency to not work as well. Two years now, only urged one day.

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