NPAIFR: smoking is an evil hell

juliannat

I have an uncle wasting away with bone cancer. He first had bladder cancer, which he beat, but which was 99% caused from being a smoker all his life. I am so sad because my poor aunt already lost both her parents (my grandp) in Dec and now she is going to lose her 58 yr old husband of 28 yrs. The pain and suffering that he and his family are going through is just so wrong.

Kiki11

I'm so sorry.  I totally agree with you that smoking is evil.  I watched my grandfather die from lung cancer and I'll never forget my aunt asking me to run out and get her a pack of cigarettes while she was sitting with him dying.  I just don't get it.  It's amazing to me how many people smoke knowing what it does to your body.  Very sad   I'm very sorry your aunt has to go through all this. 

2006july15bride

I am really sorry.  I have lost more than one family member to smoking. I thank god everyday that DH, my mom, and my BFF have all finally quit.

stepgirl21

So sorry. That is awful. Yes, smoking is a lot of things: evil, hell, disgusting, nasty, putrid, death.

newsbaby

That is so sad, I am so sorry. I will never understand why the addiction to cigarettes is so strong for some. 

EMTTessie

I'm so sorry your aunt and family are going through this. I completely agree that smoking is beyond aweful. DH and FIL both smoked and it was hell living with them. They have both stopped, FIL about two years ago because of a health scare (he was in the hospital for almost a month...very long story) and DH just in Nov. And my BFF is basically going through hell right now with her MIL because of smoking. This woman has a list as long as your arm of medical problems due to smoking and refuses to believe anyone that tells her as much. She even had surgery to bypass a clogged artery and my BFF just told me Friday that the new bypass artery is now clogged. She is so convinced it's the surgeon's fault and not the smoking that she went for a second opinion, and that doc told her he wouldn't touch her until she quit. When her son asked her why she won't quit her response was "I enjoy smoking. Why should I have to stop doing something that I enjoy." Well isn't that just fantastic.

Quizzle

Ugh!

My grandfather smoked for 50 years, and quit after he had a heart attack. He still ended up dying from complications of emphysema. Everyone always had a suspicion that my grandmother's breast cancer was in part caused by his smoking, too, but nobody would ever, ever suggest that to him.... He always talked about how much better everything smelled after he quit, he couldn't believe it.

And yet my brother smoked for quite a while, even though my grandfather lived with us for a few months while he was ill.

Smoking was always a deal breaker for me. 

jenber77

That's awful.

My FIL has lung cancer. It's also spread to his head and his spine. He's in a lot of pain... but he's still smoking. MIL quit the day she had an emergency quadruple bypass surgery (helped by her two-week stay in the ICU), but FIL just couldn't do it.

I'm so grateful that my mom, her father, and most of her siblings have quit over the past decade. For my mom it was my pregnancy that finally made her do it.