1 year ago today I quit smoking! It is also my Dad's birthday. My Dad passed away in 2007. He was a smoker. Smoking took his life, he had copd, emphesema, collapsed lung, a fast growing tumor in his lung and when they did the biopsy on the tumor he went into respitory failure. He was put on Life support and died 2 days later. My dad could not walk but a couple of feet while at home. He would be so out of breath. by the time he went to the hospital his fingers were blue and he was talking out of his head due to lack of oxygen. Seeing my Dad grasp for air (it was like nothing I have ever seen before) when they took him off life support and put him on oxygen still did not make me quit for over a year after he died. Had I known how easy it actually was to quit I would have done it along time ago. I wished I had never smoked and I really wish my Dad never smoked. We would be celebrating his 75 th birthday today! I am so mad that something so stupid like cigarettes killed my Dad. I hate cigarettes. I always said I liked smoking. What kind of idiot likes to put smoke in their lungs? I does not feel good. It is just killing you. I know people that say I dont want to quit I enjoy it. That is just not so. I smoked since I was 18 and now I am 48. I always felt like shit. no energy, looked horrible, and smelled bad. People who enjoy it please tell me what it is that is so enjoyable. I would love to debate this. I could never say what I enjoyed about them. I am so mad at cigarettes!!!! If you are still smoking STOP NOW!! Do you want your family crying for you on your birthday and holidays because you smoked and died from it? PLEASE STOP. I cry alot because this happened so fast with my Dad. At the end of May he got a cold and November 7 he died. My family and I miss him so much.
