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[shyknee]

10 dollars a pack for legal cigarettes
car accident crushed my lungs and it forced me to stop 2 years ago now
all the x-rays showed no cancer and still clean so i looked at it as a second chance even thou i still have other problems from the accident.
What I am trying to say is it is never to late to quit , every thing tastes so much better and I don't stink anymore

 

[Harold_V]

10 dollars a pack for legal cigarettes
car accident crushed my lungs and it forced me to stop 2 years ago now
all the x-rays showed no cancer and still clean so i looked at it as a second chance even thou i still have other problems from the accident.[What I am trying to say is it is never to late to quit /quote]
Very sorry to hear of the crash, but so pleased to hear you stopped. I extend to you my sincere congratulations. As you suggest, you still have a shot at health, and it improves with passing time.

, every thing tastes so much better and I don't stink anymore

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That's the one thing that smokers don't realize. Especially if they are heavy smokers. Frankly, I can't stand to be around them. Much rather smell a cigar, truth be known. Or a pipe. 8) Cigarette smokers, to me, smell worse than a stinky outhouse.

Harold

 

[Barren Realms 007]

It's the Marlboro 100's that are not the pretty sight. 8)

I will agree with you 100%'Glory, I whish I would never had started but such is life. The years of construction have done more harm to my lungs than the cigarettes.

Is that a medical opinion, or a guess? (I expect a guess-----unless you worked around asbestos)

Regardless, stop if you can. Seek help to stop if you can't. You will be amazed at what you've been missing, and I'm sure you'll be able to find something to do with the money you'll save. Smokes, here, are over $6 pack now. :shock:

Harold (an ex pipe smoker)

Good god what made you dig this up Harold.

But I agree with you 100% on the quitting the smoking. But here is a rainbow of hope at the time I posted that response I was having one of the hardest times breathing and was really concerned about it. Anywy it was the start of summer and grass cutting. I got a virus or something that agrivated my breating problem on top of everything. Breathing was kind of like adema from clorine inhalation, You got to experience it to know how bad that can be. Any way I have someone that works at wall mart and they got hold of me some stuff that cleared me up for a while. Once the medication was gone a few weeks later the problem arose again so at least I know it is treatable. I hate going to doctors so maye some day the wife will drag me in and make me go get fixed up. In the mean time yes I hope one day to get the courage to stop for good.

The opinion was more of an observation because my Dad and my uncle have or had bad breathing problems and I followed in the same footsteps as they have but started at a much earlier age(my dad passes away in 2007 not from breathing problems but complication of a broken back).

Harold you ask about contact with asbestos. Yes I have worked around it. I started in the trades (electrical & HVAC) around 68-70. Crawling in attics insulating duct work and all other forms of construction. I started doing plumbing work around 82(don't even get me started on all the piping I have worked on that had asbestos. The school cafateria I ate in was a dome type building with open walls and asbestos blown on the whole structure.

Training in the medical field. Well not much. Whatever 7-9 years of learning in scouts, 4 years in ROTC, umpteen years in the construction field will teach you. And some hard earned lessons. I have seen and followed closely what lupus had done to both my sisters and the medications they were given and how it effected them. My mom heart problems and diabeties complications you name it and it went wrong with her, only thing that didn't happen is she didn't loose any limbs. My dad heart problems and other health issues but he was tough and neer let on that there was any problem. Not to mention other family and friends. Records were kept of these episodes and me and my dad discussed them on a regular basis so we would be informed and know the correct questions to ask and when to put pressure on someone to get something dome. So yes I will say I have a little bit of understanding of medicine and the medical field, a little more than the average individual.

 

[Harold_V]

I trust you understand my comments were not being critical of you, but intended to show my concern.
If memory serves, those that have been exposed to asbestos have a much higher incidence of cancer, exacerbated by smoking. Given your family background, I'd suggest you seek help in stopping---not tomorrow, but immediately.

By the way, about the time the asbestos issue was the rage, I stopped by what used to be a Johns-Manville outlet. One guy left from a crew, all dead from asbestos, and he was ill.
I have machined the stuff, and still have some asbestos products. Wonderful stuff if you don't have to breath the fine dust. That's what is so damaging, by the way. Tiny particles that are hardly visible. I'm sure you know that, though.

I've been lucky in that I have never been held captive by smoking---although some of my functions gave rise to me reaching for my pipe almost automatically. That was often the case if I stood at my milling machine.

A bleeding ulcer got me off my pipe in the mid 80's. The psychological addiction was likely stronger than the physiological addiction, partly because pipe smokers (real pipe smokers, not those that shift from cig's to a pipe in an effort to convince themselves they're cutting back) don't generally inhale.

It has taken years for my love affair with my pipes to dwindle. They were very much a companion, one that kept my hand warm in the winter, and fit well when I was sipping a scotch and water, listening to Brubeck. Quitting, however, has had its own rewards. Still have all of my pipes, which I peek at occasionally. Even some 15 year old Flying Dutchman tobacco!

Be well,

Harold

 

[Barren Realms 007]

I didn't take it as you being critical.

I am a firm believer that cancer has to do with heredity. And cancer does not run in our family.

 

[Harold_V]

I didn't take it as you being critical.

I am a firm believer that cancer has to do with heredity. And cancer does not run in our family.

Lucky man!
It didn't run in my family, either, but my father died of cancer of the colon, and I have had several pre-cancerous polyps removed. I keep a close watch on myself in that regard.

Probably more than enough of this off topic discussion, at least on my behalf. Glad to hear you're OK.

Harold

 

[goldenchild]

Smokes, here, are over $6 pack now. :shock:

Harold (an ex pipe smoker)

Smokes in my area are $9.25 a pack and in the city $11-$14.00. If the cigs dont kill ya the sticker shock will. Where is the smiley with x's for eyes?

 

[Barren Realms 007]

Smokes, here, are over $6 pack now. :shock:

Harold (an ex pipe smoker)

Smokes in my area are $9.25 a pack and in the city $11-$14.00. If the cigs dont kill ya the sticker shock will. Where is the smiley with x's for eyes?

I need to buy a truckload and bring them there to sell. Oh yeah I can't they call that smugling.

 

[goldenchild]

I need to buy a truckload and bring them there to sell. Oh yeah I can't they call that smugling.

Yup. If the government doesnt get their cut you go to jail. They ban "harmful/dangerous" drugs and keep cigarettes and alcohol legal. What a joke! :x

 

[Barren Realms 007]

I need to buy a truckload and bring them there to sell. Oh yeah I can't they call that smugling.

Yup. If the government doesnt get their cut you go to jail. They ban "harmful/dangerous" drugs and keep cigarettes and alcohol legal. What a joke! :x

Yea now that is just bass ackwards the way it should be.