Text 16818, 60 rader
Skriven 2011-04-13 21:20:14 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
  Kommentar till text 16786 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
Ärende: To quit smoking
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Hello Ross.

12 Apr 11 17:23, you wrote to me:

 RC> Hello Stewart!

 RC> 12 Apr 11 16:59, you wrote to me:

 RC>>> Looks as if I am on the way to doing it right the first time,
 RC>>> seeing other progress, especially being able to go further and
 RC>>> longer on the treadmill is positive reinforcement. Of course the
 RC>>> biggest rub is, after only a couple days I was able to shake a
 RC>>> vast portion of the smokers cough, then I get prescribed BP med
 RC>>> Lisenopril, and a dry cough is a side effect of it, but not too
 RC>>> bad. I have dropped 20 pounds almost in less than 2 months.

 SA>> Dropped 20 lbs? Gravity sucks. The cough will go away after about
 SA>> five years.

 RC> I was merely musing on the irony, most aspects of the cough, when
 RC> contrasted to when I was smoking, have departed, then I get a
 RC> prescription for a BP med that has a side effect of a dry cough.. LOL

Most people put on weight when they stop smoking, usually the effect of what
they eat to overcome the crave, you must have a low calorie alternative, I
could do with loosing a few pounds my-self. ;-( The side effect from the
medicine is a bit ironic though, but it might be caused through the cilia
starting to work and expelling mucus again.

 RC> I dont get out of breath as easily, but I am not sure how much of
 RC> that
 RC> was from the smokes.. I have had Two Echoes (sonograms) of the heart
 RC> plus one Nuclear Stress Test.. I went to the Doctor for what I thought
 RC> was the flu and found out my BP was in the danger zone and that a EKG
 RC> they ran showed signs that I may have had a heart attack. Well no
 RC> blockages and no heart attack but the ejection quotient is low normal.

After a bit of hard excercise I find myself puffing like a steam train but it
soon returns to normal, when I smoked I did get breathless and found it took
some time to drop myself to a normal heart and breathing rate. I tested myself
last week by running the car out of gas (Stupid thing to do) first time in ages
I didn't have any in the car, I normally have 5 gallons in the car with some
outboard oil for the tender for the yacht. Where I stopped was at sea level and
the only way out was uphill about a kilometer at a steady 1 in 7 the nearest
petrol station was about 200 metres from the top of the hill, I walk fairly
quickly and at my normal pace I walked up the hill and found I was puffing
after about half way but when I got on the level I had recovered by the time I
got to the petrol station, the trundle back to the car was easy at a fast jog
downhill. I thought for a 62 year old I did pretty good as when I came down the
hill there was a preteen kid pushing his bike up the hill and I swear he was
puffing harder than I had ;-) When I smoked I would  have had to stop several
times going up the hill, I know because I lived in that area of town when I
smoked and walked up that hill a few times.

Keep it up, it gets easier the longer you keep off them.

Stewart

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