My Health

I am now 44 days quit and I am feeling wonderful.

I have just found out that the last 28 years of my life were all for nothing because being a smoker did nothing but lump me with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). I have only just found out today and i have printed off a whole heap of information from the internet to read up on. I have lived my life with asthma and now i have to live my life with COPD.

COPD is described as:

a long term lung disease that reduces airflow in and out of the lungs, making it difficult to breathe. Although doctors cannot cure COPD it is possible to improve your symtoms and slow the damage to your lungs.

smoking is the major cause of COPD. Around 1 in every 5 smokers will become disabled from COPD. Quitting smoking slow the rate of damage and prolongs life. Smoking inflames the air pssages which narrow, making breathing more difficult

The best day of my life was when i married and next to that it was the first day of this year when i gave up cigarettes. Because of past mistakes I have contracted COPD and I have to live with it for the rest of my life, i am going to make sure that i am not going to be limited in my life choices from this point on.

PLEASE if you smoke and have trouble giving up keep going to your doctor, go out and buy the self help books, change your ways. There is a way of giving up and as long as you keep at it you will eventually succeed. I was scared that I was going to contract a life long illness because of my smoking and it came true. Don't let this happen to you