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In reply to the discussion: How tragic! Yesterday in the grocery store parking lot, I saw someone with a portable oxygen tank... [View all]multigraincracker
(32,632 posts)25. I smoked for 40 years and haven't had a smoke in over 6 years, but
I am down to 1/3 of a piece of nicotine gum now.
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How tragic! Yesterday in the grocery store parking lot, I saw someone with a portable oxygen tank... [View all]
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
OP
I happen to know that can get hooked from secondhand smoke, so many parents are
demigoddess
Apr 2021
#7
It is a horrendous addiction. I can't tell you how many physicians, nurses, researchers and others--
hlthe2b
Apr 2021
#5
Yup.....I know, was it to late. What I keep thinking, I smoked for 37, I really don't
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#15
You're right on ALL points.......happy I did quit.....just wish it would have been sooner.
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#20
My husband who never smoked, says he could tell when the tobacco companies changed
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#18
As long ago as the 1930s people commonly called cigarettes "coffin nails".
PoindexterOglethorpe
Apr 2021
#28
They called them coffin nails in 1896. People have known for many years that
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#84
I took Wellbutrin......only thing that helped me quit, and was the hardest thing I ever did.
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#19
It helped me not be so jittery......as in like, when am I gonna have my next smoke, when can
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#73
That's how it helped me too. It still does even though I started smoking again.
beaglelover
Apr 2021
#74
Thankfully, smoking in the car is one routine I won't have to break! I only smoke at home.
beaglelover
Apr 2021
#78
I knew a woman who used to smoke while riding her stationary exercise bike. True story. nt
Binkie The Clown
Apr 2021
#21
Nicotine gum, patches and lozenges were my pacifier for about three months while I quit.
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#27
Oxygen is not flammable, but it can cause other materials that burn to ignite more easily and to ...
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#37
Good luck! I quit many times over the years... but I'd always find some excuse to start again.
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#39
I think it was WC Fields who said; "quitting smoking is easy, I've done it a thousand times"
maxrandb
Apr 2021
#67
The Mister and I quit at the same time. Neither one of us would have succeeded...
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#60
When I previously failed, I referred to it as "taking a break" from smoking...
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#76
Hopefully his addiction won't burn his grandkid alive due to the O2 tank fire.
alphafemale
Apr 2021
#71
Years ago when My MIL was in hospice for breast cancer, there were more than a few on
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#83
When Mom was in the nursing home, the staff would roll some of the residents to a patio area...
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#85