I saw another thread on here this morning about giving things up for the New Year. I'm at the end of my sixties now (pause for condolences), and smoked between the ages of 15 to about 27/28. I often say I could have 'smoked for England'. I smoked everything, plain cigs mostly, pipe, cigars, roll ups, I even tried smoking chewing tobacco!
Since I gave up I have been progressively anti-smoking, and perhaps more so since I see my neighbour who has emphysema and can't move about much and is fully reliant on an oxygen tube, following a life time of smoking.
So what, you are thinking?
Well I went to see the asthma nurse the other week and she says I might have a mild case of COPD probably directly related to my smoking all those years ago. So it may have come back to haunt me, in spite of the early recognition of the harm it was doing to me.
So, I wondered, how many of our forum members still smoke and perhaps why and will they be giving up for the New Year, given the evidence concerning the health problems it causes?
And how many of you did smoke but have properly given up?
And how many have never smoked, a group I wish I was in!?
Since I gave up I have been progressively anti-smoking, and perhaps more so since I see my neighbour who has emphysema and can't move about much and is fully reliant on an oxygen tube, following a life time of smoking.
So what, you are thinking?
Well I went to see the asthma nurse the other week and she says I might have a mild case of COPD probably directly related to my smoking all those years ago. So it may have come back to haunt me, in spite of the early recognition of the harm it was doing to me.
So, I wondered, how many of our forum members still smoke and perhaps why and will they be giving up for the New Year, given the evidence concerning the health problems it causes?
And how many of you did smoke but have properly given up?
And how many have never smoked, a group I wish I was in!?