I'm 31 now, and have been smoking solidly since I was about 14. And I've had enough of it - I want out. I don't want to get sick and die gasping for breath in some hospital ward, so l've 99% ditched the smokes. Sounds like a cop out right? 99%... Well yeah, it does sound that way - but I don't think it's so bad. Like Kanya West - ya gotta lemme finish! ;) What prompted all this was that I got a chest infection the other week, and it really kicked me to the kerb. Think severe respiratory distress hospital run at 6am for nebulisers & oxygen type sick. My heart's hammering away around the 120 bpm mark, even when the drugs had stopped me having to fight so hard to just get air into my lungs, I couldn't get the oxygen into my system from the chest infection dropping my lung function to really low levels.. Just horrible.. And lasting for day after day after day while the antibiotics cleared me up. So with that wake-up call ringing very, very loudly in my ears - I've dropped the fags. And I'm doing pr More
2011-06-21