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i bought my patches today and with three cigs left in the pack...i will be smoke free soon....16+ yrs of that filthy habit....cant wait for me to kick it!!!
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David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 1 | Hi frankmartin, Woman who smoke during pregnancy face lot consequences such as sudden infant death syndrome, still birth, low birth weight of the baby, placenta abruption, premature birth, miscarriage, infertility, colic and respiratory infection that affects new born babies. Visit: http://smokingharms.com/, it provides much information about the above issue. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
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David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Iowa girl, you will kick the habit. It sounds as if you have it beaten mentaly already. I quit cold turkey and smoked for over 50 yrs. Your state of mind is a big thing to kick this habit.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 130 | I just passed my 1 year anniversary. If you need to vent. You just let me know. If you need anything, let me know.
Amy
40 yr old. Stage IV SCC found left tonsil. PET/CT shows cancer on base of tongue, floor of mouth, lymph nodes on both sides. HPV 16 pos. 6 weeks of cisplatin, 43 days of radiation. 73gy on each side.
ND March 2, 2009
reoccurance dx'd Aug 19, 2009
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Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 598 | Almost 3 years for me off the cigs. Nothing like a diagnosis of HNC to make cravings disappear.
Jeff
SCC Right BOT Dx 3/28/2007
T2N2a M0G1,Stage IVa
Bilateral Neck Dissection 4/11/2007
39 x IMRT, 8 x Cisplatin Ended 7/11/07
Complete response to treatment so far!!
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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 357 | I didn't want to quit, but my husband did. He bought One Step at a Time filters, so I used them to humor him. They didn't cut the taste or number of cigarettes I somoked, just the nicotine in each cig. I got to the third of four filters, smoked a pack one night, and didn't want another cig the next day, or the next, or the next.
Quitting was easy; staying off cigs was hard. I carried a pack with me for 3 months just in case the urge got too much. In 1979, smoking in public places was acceptable, so we stopped going out for about 3 months. It took almost 2 years before I stopped having the urge regularly.
My husband quit on the filters, went back, then quit cold turkey when he got pneunomia.
Until I got OC, I believed I was still addicted; if I ever took a drag, I'd go right back to smoking. Now, no way!
You don't want to come off as a nag because smokers have heard it all, and most people try to quit more than once. I didn't smoke early in my pregnancies, but I went back as soon as I could stomach the cigs. It's an addiction that hard to break. With me, it happened naturally by decreasing the nicotine (except that last night of binge smoking).
As other have said, it has to come from within, but perhaps it's better to try five times than not to try at all.
Marlene
Marginal mandibulectomy 6/17/08 resulted in DX of Stage I SCC - gingiva (3 mm) right mandible, buccal side. Clear margins. Occasional social drinker. Smoked last cigarette in 1979. Clear pet: 12/08; 7/20/09. Yay!
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | With the price increase that just went into effect, you almost would have to mortgaqge your house to buy a carton. LOL I look at all the welfare people we feed and most of them have cigarettes in their mouths and wonder, now how in the hell can they afford that crap when we have to feed, cloth and give them a place to live?? Must be nice. THis sin't mentioning all the gas they use daily going nowhere but back and forth.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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