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[Sandra (aka Chillax)]

That is bloomin fantastic #icon_welldone# thanks for the update

[genguskhan]

That's great Graham well done #icon_welldone#

[MadDan]

Congratulation Graham .


My uncle stopped dead from a 60 a day habit after he was diagnosed with emphysema. The disease got him in the end, but not until he was in his mid 80s so it probably gave him something like 25 years more.

I also remember Denis Norden saying he stopped dead from 60 a day when he realised that he'd filled his car's ashtray in the time he'd been stuck at traffic lights in London.

I've never gone beyond 30 a day and I never understood how they could just stop dead like that.

[Roger]

Very well done Graham, it's not the ones you smoke, but the one you don't that matter.

[suede]

Hi mate
Good to hear from you. Really glad your sorted.

[vapourized]

Nov 5, 2012 11:33:43 GMT MadDan said:

Congratulation Graham .


My uncle stopped dead from a 60 a day habit after he was diagnosed with emphysema. The disease got him in the end, but not until he was in his mid 80s so it probably gave him something like 25 years more.

I also remember Denis Norden saying he stopped dead from 60 a day when he realised that he'd filled his car's ashtray in the time he'd been stuck at traffic lights in London.

I've never gone beyond 30 a day and I never understood how they could just stop dead like that.

Yep, I have no doubt that I have done untold damage to my lungs and arteries from not just the amount of cigarettes I have smoked a day but also the 55 odd years of smoking but all I can do now is damage limitation. It might do bugger all but at least it's worth a shot. I must admit that I am feeling absolutely fine at the moment, I don't have a smokers cough and I can hold my breath for 2 minutes under water while swimming (proved on holiday this year ), God knows how I can manage that after all these years but I can. But can I stop smoking just like that? Nope.

As I said before, I'm now happy with that and can work with it but I do admire the people who can stop just like that but not for me I'm afraid. I want to be happy while I'm in the process of giving up and I genuinely believe that for me then I will eventually succeed because I'm not stressed out over it.

We're all different and we all need our different props to get through some of the utter crap that life can throw at us sometimes and 3 cigarettes plus vaping suits me just fine for the time being.

Graham

[linzipinz]

Well done, thats fantstic

[Banky]

Well done m8

[chykensa]

Excellent news Graham, well done and long may it continue!! A post like this is so refreshing, and I wish we could publicise your successes to the world as one example of just how useful vaping is to us ex-smokers!
Do keep us posted!!

[Bluefish]

Fantastic news graham, and you get a free holiday too, what's not to like