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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 102804" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>G'day, Esther, good to see you're home again. lay off those cancer sticks for good, willya? We want you with us for many years to come.</p><p></p><p>My best friend's mother died on Friday morning, suddenly, due to smoking-related cardiac blockages. She had a small warning heart attach on Thursday morning so they put her in hospital to do tests with a view to putting things to rights (and again nag her to stop chain-smoking) but for her, it was too late. The "big one" hit in the small hours next morning.</p><p></p><p>It's not too late for you. You now have another chance.</p><p></p><p>Are you allowed to use patches? or is the amount of nicotine in the patches a bad thing? Surely they would be better than going back onto the cigarettes! It is very difficult when there are so many smokers around you; I gather more people smoke in Israel (and other Middle East countries) than a lot of other countries? When we were in Greece we were amazed by the amount of smoking there - numbers are rapidly dropping here in Australia, so it's easier to quit here. We even have a government-funded service designed to help people quit smoking. No smoking in public buildings here; smoking now banned in cars carrying children under 18. It's hard on those wanting to smoke, but easier for those who do not want to. And, of course, it costs the government a lot less in lost productivity and high health costs.</p><p></p><p>Keep on getting better, be gentle with yourself. The cravings do pass but they take a while. My father went through this - he was diagnosed with emphysema and told that if he kept smoking he would live maybe another five years. So he quit smoking, took up regular exercise and lived another twenty-five years. He only died because a latent TB he'd been carrying since the 1940s became active. He'd been on steroids for shingles, the TB woke up, everything began to fail. But in the meantime, he had 25 years of good quality of life, instead of five years of gasping for air. I was glad to have him for so much longer, he got to know all but one of his grandchildren and got to hold his first great-grandchild.</p><p></p><p>We love you, Esther, we want you to be happy and healthy.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 102804, member: 1991"] G'day, Esther, good to see you're home again. lay off those cancer sticks for good, willya? We want you with us for many years to come. My best friend's mother died on Friday morning, suddenly, due to smoking-related cardiac blockages. She had a small warning heart attach on Thursday morning so they put her in hospital to do tests with a view to putting things to rights (and again nag her to stop chain-smoking) but for her, it was too late. The "big one" hit in the small hours next morning. It's not too late for you. You now have another chance. Are you allowed to use patches? or is the amount of nicotine in the patches a bad thing? Surely they would be better than going back onto the cigarettes! It is very difficult when there are so many smokers around you; I gather more people smoke in Israel (and other Middle East countries) than a lot of other countries? When we were in Greece we were amazed by the amount of smoking there - numbers are rapidly dropping here in Australia, so it's easier to quit here. We even have a government-funded service designed to help people quit smoking. No smoking in public buildings here; smoking now banned in cars carrying children under 18. It's hard on those wanting to smoke, but easier for those who do not want to. And, of course, it costs the government a lot less in lost productivity and high health costs. Keep on getting better, be gentle with yourself. The cravings do pass but they take a while. My father went through this - he was diagnosed with emphysema and told that if he kept smoking he would live maybe another five years. So he quit smoking, took up regular exercise and lived another twenty-five years. He only died because a latent TB he'd been carrying since the 1940s became active. He'd been on steroids for shingles, the TB woke up, everything began to fail. But in the meantime, he had 25 years of good quality of life, instead of five years of gasping for air. I was glad to have him for so much longer, he got to know all but one of his grandchildren and got to hold his first great-grandchild. We love you, Esther, we want you to be happy and healthy. Marg [/QUOTE]
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