Yep, I too was for many years lighting up as soon as I woke up in the
morning, then on getting to the kitchen the morning cough would come on
and I'd be spitting up really solid chunks into the sink.
And - after swilling out my mouth with whatever liquid came to hand, I'd
take out a cigarette, light it and stand there puffing away! For some 2
or 3 years I've been saying to myself, Ian, this is really stupid. You're
coughing up ghastly stuff every morning, and then you're breathing in
smoke to produce more of it. Really stupid thing to do, isn't it?
But that addiction was stronger than that inner voice and I kept on
smoking forty or more times a day.
After 15 weeks of not smoking, well my chest is not great but I'm not
coughing up stuff each morning. I go for a chest x-ray today, having seen
the doctor yesterday. He said the chest sounds pretty good but I am
feeling a tightness on the left on breathing in, so he wants to see what
an x-ray will show.
My oxygen level was 95 which is not bad; I'm told almost no one scores
100, that's just an ideal.
I don't get out of breath after only a slight exertion as I was doing
up to about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and that odd weakness and unsteadiness has
gone
altogether. Still eating three times as much as I used to do, too.
So I think I'm in a reasonnably good state of fitness once more.
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Ian
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