Like a lot of people here I stoped smoking a few days before surgery and after just over 2 years have not had another cigarette. Like all addicts I think it would be dangerous for me to have even 1 as I think that may start me back on that rollercoaster.
Like Jim, Rita, Pete and others it is great that I now have an apartment that I am not embarrassed to open the door to. Mind you I don�t recall noticing the smell then but I do now if I even walk outside a building where people are standing in doorways smoking. Also I was a heavy smoking and had that terrible morning cough which is now gone. Lot�s of other positives but have to also mention the extra cash smirk
I used to buy a carton at the supermarket with my groceries and now that bill still amazes me at the check out as it would be at least � of what I would have paid.
For me that is only one of the changes and I will maybe list some more another time.
Gabriele

History Leukoplakia bx 8/2006 SCC floor mouth T3N0M0- Verrucous Carcinoma.
14 hour 0p SCC-Right ND/excision/marginal mandibulectomy 9/2006, 4 teeth removed, flap from wrist, trach-ng 6 days- no chemo/rad.
6 ops and debulking (flap/tongue join) + bx's 2006-2012.
bx Jan 2012 Hyperkeratosis-Epithelial Dysplasia
24cm GIST tumour removed 8/2013. Indefinite Oral Chemo.

1/31/16 passed away peacefully surrounded by family