Wow, Freeda! What a story. I started smoking when I was 17 and just starting college -- made me look more sophisticated -- what a joke! And i smoked heavily through 4 pregnancies. I was lucky but especially so were my kids. I had tried many times to stop and it finally took pneumonia and a week in ICU. That was 1990 and my youngest was only 10. Still, if I hadn't run out of cigarettes, if I had been able to talk anyone into buying them for me, I would have taken them to the ICU oxygen and all. For several years I used to dream that I started smoking again. Luckily the dreams always horrified me and I was never tempted to start again. I figure it took being so sick that I almost, but not quite, died. It was a chance in a life time and I don't want to blow it.
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