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COPD and Can’t Commit to Quitting Smoking
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@karukgirl I did quit! I smoked a long time ago. I smoked a pack a day when I was 18 yrs old . I quit smoking when I was 57. 39-40 years total. After 21 years of no smoking . I was diagnosed with emphysema in the ER , went home on 4 ltrs. Oxygen 24/7. That was 3 years ago . I am still on 4 ltrs oxygen 24/7. No portable consentrators work for me . I am the old crone with the tank on a cart . That D tank lasts me 1 1/2 hours . I carry spares . I even have a 2 tank cart . Smokem’ if you gottem ‘ . But be prepared . Blessed Be , Crystalena
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Cyrstalena, @crystalena, thank you for posting a "truth hurts" post!
You sound like you have a wonderful attitude, and I appreciate how you have adapted to your new life with tanks and tubes. It must have been really devastating at first.
How very sad and surprising too, that after all those years of not smoking, you get hit with such a rotten diagnosis. It's a risk so many of us were willing to take. Thinking we are all that and a bag of chips and it won't happen to me.
Thank you for posting what you did...it hurts to think of how your life must be so limited now, and yet here you are...trying to help others.
I pray you continue to share with others your story and what they too may face from this terrible addiction to nicotine.
My dad always said "Do as I say, not as I do!" which is what we eventually learn if we live long enough on this planet.
Are you able to get outside and enjoy nature? Or feel comfortable going places? Do you have a hobby that brings you joy?