I smoked for 20 years; I was up to 3 packs a day. At 32 years old I spent new years in the hospital hooked up to oxygen, having steroid injections into my IV and receiving breathing treatments (1-2) every 4 hours. Heck of a way to bring in the New Year.
I had thought about quitting but not something I had ever tried very long; I tried patches, zyban and cold turkey nothing ever worked, so I quit trying to quit.
My husband smoked longer then I did; the second day I was in the hospital the doctor told him there was little to know improvement in my condition; he quit right then.
The first week was the easiest I was in the hospital. I was there for one week; it was enough time for me to consider never smoking again, I had already made it a week.
The second week on the other hand SUCKED! It was horrible; I wanted to smoke so bad, the only reason I didn�t was the oxygen tank I was carrying with me scared the crap out of me.
Let me just say food never tasted so good and stuff never smelled so bad LOL!!
It gets better if you just make it past that 14th day. One month came an went and first of February tragedy hit out family; I lost a very special person to me, in a very bad way.
MAN I WANTED TO SMOKE!!!!
But it wouldn�t bring her back, no, but it would numb me. I have never gone through death, life, anything without a smoke. I didn�t know if I would make it; here I am no smokes still and I am living.
I wanted to write all this for the people who just quit or who are fighting:
Nicotine is beatable. :)
