• comador @lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Similar story: Older girl I liked when I was 13 smoked so I smoked. Guy I worked with smoked so I kept smoking for the next 35 years. I coughed up blood 18 months ago and stopped cold turkey that day. I still cough crap up on occasion, but glad I quit.

    Congratulations on quitting.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      I too quit cold turkey. Just got into my mind to stop so I did. Never cough up anything thankfully. But I know it fucked up my skin, and had a doctor tell me that my lungs had little holes in them and I should have ephesima which I don’t again thankfully. I am also glad I quit because my ex wife didn’t and she suffers from COPD and looks twenty yesrs older then me, even though she four years younger then me. And she still smokes.

      For me 10 years smoke free next year.