IF YOU SMOKE PLEASE READ AND TAKE THIS TO HEART!

AS MANY OF YOU KNOW I HAVE LOST SEVERAL LOVED FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE LAST 2 TO 3 YEARS DUE TO CANCER FROM SMOKING.
PLEASE IF YOU SMOKE CONSIDER STOPING. I QUITE COLD TURKEY IN 1981 WHILE SMOKING 4 PACKS A DAY. I I CAN DO IT SO CAN YOU.
MY DAD DIED IN 1995 FROM EMPHESEMA FROM SMOKING. THERE WERE A FEW YRS INBETWEEN BUT THEN ALL WENT DOWN HILL.
1. MY HUSBANDS DAD DIED FROM KIDNEY CANCER AND HEART DISEASE BROUGHT ON BY SMOKING IN 1999.

2. IN DECEMBER ACTUALLY CHRISTMAS DAY BY DEAR AUNT MARGARET DIED IN 2001 FROM KIDNEY AND LUNG CANCER FROM SMOKING. SHE WAS MY BEST FRIEND AND CONFIDANT. I AM NOT OVER THE LOST OF HER YET.

3. MARCH 2002 MY HUSBANDS UNCLE DIED FROM LUNG CANCER FROM SMOKING.

4. APRIL 2002 MY OTHER AUNT THAT I WAS CLOSE WITH DIED FROM CANCER FROM SMOKING. SHE SUFFERED EXTREMELY. IT HAD TO BE A CLOSED CASKET BECAUSE SHE LOOKED SO BAD.

5. NOW MY DEAR MOTHER-IN-LAW IS SUFFERING WITH FINAL STAGE EMPHSEMA, DOWN TO 15% LUNG FUNCTION AND NOW THEY HAVE FOUND THROAT CANCER CAUSED FROM THE SMOKING TOO.

SHE AND ALL THE OTHERS REFUSED TO QUIT SMOKING. I KNOW IT IS HARD TO STOP. BUT AT THIS HOLIDAY TIME PLEASE THINK OF STOPING. THINK OF ALL THE FRIEF YOUR FAMILY WILL GO THRU AND ALL THE SUFFERING YOU WILL GO THRU IN THE FUTURE FROM SMOKING. AND WHATS WORSE OF ALL YOU ARE PAYING ALOT OF MONEY TO KILL YOURSELF. AI AM NOT CRITIZING ANYONE BUT I FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THIS THAT I FELT I JUST HAD TO SAY THIS.
ALL THOSE PATCHES AND GUM SAY YOU WILL NEVER CRAVE A CIG AGAIN. WRONG!!!!!!1 I QUITE 22 YRS AGO AND TO THIS DAY I STILL GET A MOMENTARY CRAVING. IT IS JUST LIKE FIGHTING TO STAY ON THE WAGON FROM DRINKING ALCOHOL OR DOING DRUGS.

MY CHRISTMAS WISH FOR ALL MY FRIENDS HERE IS THAT GOD WILL GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH TO QUITE WHATEVER YOUR ADDICTION IS SO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL NOT SUFFER THRU WHAT MINE HAS SUFFERED THRU WITH THE LOSS OF OUR LOVE ONES DUE TO CIGARETTE SMOKING.