I am very embarrassed to admit it but YES, I am still smoking. I have tried almost all the methods, on the market, for quiting but non have worked for me. This is one area of my health that I am constantly working on to improve. I am well aware of all the related health issues pertaining to my General Health and in particular to smoking and bladder cancer.
I will succeed in quiting.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
More on this topic as time goes on.
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Neil
Filed under: Bladder Cancer - Smoking, My Bladder Cancer - Symptoms, My Cancer
Me too,
I’m a (Spanish) bladder cancer survivor (due to tobacco according to my urologist). I started smoking, when I was only 14 years old. I smoked an average of three paquets and a half every day, all the year arround, year after year, summer, autum, winter and springs. I was told once I smoked even under water!. I was the most profitable and loyal customer of tobacco companies.
There were Sundays, when I got run out of cigarettes and every thing was closed, I took and drove the car after midnight to Madrid Arport to buy tobacco. I was the most addicted man on the earth. Tried to quit hundreds of times to no avail. It was only the same day I had my bladder tumor removed, I decided to quit tobacco for ever. It was the simplest and easiest thing in the world. The only and big difference this time, was that I was abslutely conviced and absolutely sure I had decided that I wanted to quit tobacco for ever and live the rest of my life without it: “life is hard”. And that was all, I still consider my self a redundant smoker: I never give tobacco the smallest oppurtunity. I may now seat down at a table where every body is smoking and not only not feel any need to smoke, or miss tobacco, but I feel the pleasure I’m not any more a slave of nicotin. No methods were required this time. It was as simple and as easy as not smoking one single cigarrete again.
My feeling is that it is not a question of thinking or not thinking about it; it is a question of quitting … that is it ACTION, MOTION!. DECISSION!…
Go ahead and stop smoking for ever, you will not die because of it. You’ll question yourself why did you not do it before. Tobacco is a huge shit!
Are you still smoking now?
My father has been diagnosed and will have his bladder taken out very soon. His father had bladder cancer, as well as his father. They were all smokers.
I am worried about my father being able to quit. He has quit before, but has always went back. They said that even if his bladder is gone he can still develop cancer again if he does not stop smoking.
I am a smoker too, and I know how difficult it is.