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EB Celebrates Six Months Without a Single Puff

These Things Have Disappeared:

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Updated November 20, 2006

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AT SIX MONTHS WITHOUT ONE SINGLE PUFF AND AFTER OVER 25 YEARS OF SMOKING, THESE THINGS HAVE DISAPPEARED:
  • A pressure, heaviness, and pain in my lungs in the morning.
  • Morning cough.
  • Breathlessness in my reading voice.
  • Breathlessness when walking up hills or stairs.
  • Unpleasant irritation in my mouth.
  • General tiredness and loss of energy.
  • Headaches.
  • Cigarette hangovers after late nights out.
  • Yellow teeth.
  • Bloodshot eyes.
  • Bad breath.
  • Hair that smells like an ashtray.
  • Two yellow, stinky fingers.
  • Waking up at night coughing.
  • Colds that turn into terrible chest colds that need to be treated by antibiotics.
  • Gravel, broke-glass voice.
  • Constant clearing of my throat.
  • Constant stuffy nose.
In my opinion, people who quit cigarettes are supermen and superwomen - like those who have climbed Mount Everest, or been to the South Pole, or swum across the British Channel, etc.

QUITTING CIGARETTES IS AN ENORMOUS ACCOMPLISHMENT!

So...maybe ex-smokers are the coolest, bravest, and strongest people on earth! We are rocking!

EB(Quit date: May 6, 2003) Pull up your socks. These are no small potatoes!
emilybronte(EMILYBRONTE1)

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