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COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Last Active: Mar 29, 2023 | Replies (86)Comment receiving replies
Hi Everyone I am a recovering Lung damaged person who after 30 years of Smoking was told 10 years ago Oct 3rd 2011 if you don't quit you will die. Well that same day 4 packs of cigarettes went into the trash and in Oct of 2021 I celebrated 10 years smoke free. I was told that some effects of damaged lungs will return after about 10 years post and I'll add that I still have COPD and emphysema and use a CPAP at night I have recovered to not needing any inhalers(I was on 2 when I was still smoking Spriva and Advair with a albuteral inhaler for emergencies) and the classic caught you have as a smoker is also gone so I hope my testimony may help others to realize the need to quit.
But also as a Heart Transplant recipient I know what the feeling is like to not be getting enough oxygen rich blood and that's a scary thing. I was just sharing that with @gregoryz I just saw on another Thread who gave me an inspirational word of comfort about the feeling of not being able to breathe. So if I can be of any help with COPD related issues especially having to do with smoking please share your thoughts with me. I really love to help others. I truly believe a condition is much easier to endure when you realize your not alone.
Blessings
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Now on my smoking I was a 2 pack a day for 30 years as I started at 16 . I did not ever want to quit because I enjoyed my smoking . I was born asthmatic and in an attack I would use an over the counter inhaler . I was healthy until around 2016 when I was playing volleyball and hid where no one saw me as I thought what I had was maybe a collapsed lung . It would be my very first attack . I recovered but had an very odd sluggish tiredness . I buried my father in 2018 and that stress was bad but I "smoked" on and by 2021 I entered the ER with my first suffocating feeling where I was diagnosed COPD.I stayed 4 days and was out had quit smoking for a month but was back to it mid year & In August I was back in the hospital with my second attack where I stayed for 9 days . Of course you do not smoke in a hospital so I made the decision to prepare for nicotine withdraws & faith in God to quit . Someone put a patch on me and it helped as I lay in bed but I had to prepare to not smoke once out . Now what has worked for me is a silly wrapped peppermint candy . I am now addicted to a bag of peppermint candys to suck on and that has been my coping method lol...I do but the 1.00 bags at the local dollar store and can finish a bag every 3 days so I am still ahead financially..lol ..I have had cravings sure but they pass . I am also not a mean reformed smoker because this world is real and others do smoke so I cannot preach to a habit I know so well . I do not beat myself up over smoking no because as I said I enjoyed it but after this last hospital scare and knowing so many were rooting for me it give me strength to stop . Day to day and baby steps . God Bless everyone