[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by Chris_Lover

Thank YOU for these informations that will help me and other people fighting against this bad habit. Maybe I'll never totally quit 'cos I love tobacco's taste and smell too much, I honestly admit it with all my silliness, but at least I'd like to be able to decrease the number of cigarettes from almost 20 a day to 3/4, as I did in the past. After my gf left me in november, with depression I've also lost control of smoking. My body started sending me some "signals", like yesterday morning when I run to bed after a terrible chest/shoulders/back pain abruptly started.
My dad had a terrible heart attack in 2004 when he was only 45 yo and never smoked (no one in my family smoke), so anytime I feel a strange pain in the chest I get scared and sometimes I wake up abruptly during the night with the fear of dying. Suffering from Hashimoto's thyroiditis made me develop a tachycardia, overweight and endocrine problems and I know there's a higher heart attack risk. Anyway not only me, but everyone need to quit smoking or decrease the number of cigarettes to at least 2-3 a day. I've lost my grandma for cancer in 2004, she didn't smoke but I can understand what did you feel back then. Who has a relative that died or is dying from this terrible illness knows very well the pain, the agony and the despair going through his family and the patient himself, so if we can avoid developing a cancer due to our bad habits, it's better for everyone.

No problem.Do the best you can.