I am not going to read this entire thread, because I have laundry to do and there's not enough time to read it all and go to work tonight!!
I was a smoker for 16 years. Started when I was a wee lassie of 15. Dumbest thing I ever started. Shamefully, I did not quit until I was 6 mos. preggers with my second, beautiful, thannkfully healthy daughter, Megan.
What made me quit? My kids. I started feeling soooo rotten about what I was doing to them and soemday, maybe they would be watching me die of lung cancer...scared the daylights right out of me! I was reading all those parent magazines with studies of how babies can breathe in cig. smoke right out of your hair and clothes, even if you smoked outside. I really was scared. Every day, I noticed more and more that I couldn't finish a caig and my throat would close up and I would feel miserable. My last cigs were Dec. 31, 2003. Have't had once since. Yeah, I find it harder to lose weight, but I don't care. I quit smoking! Yeah!! I aslo nagged my hubby to death and he quit 3 months later! We are both so happy to have kicked that nasty old habit.
Then a couple of years ago, my brother-in-law's youngest child was diagnosed with asthma. His wife swears that it was not because they both smoked like chimneys (actaully worse), but because it was hereditary as she has it too. Funny, she had told me a few years before that she never had asthma until she smoked.....hmmmmm.... Anyhoo, doctor told her to get rid of pets, thoroughly clean the house (yea, right, I had never met such slobs!) and to not smoke around her, AT ALL! So my hubby goes over to their house to see his bro about something, and there's the wifey, sitting in an enclosed hallway in front of her apartment door, smoking, with the door to the apartment wide open, and her little 2 year old with asthma climbing all over wifey smoking the cig. Hmmm.....
