winterman
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2002
I started smoking my freshman year of college. I stopped about 9 years later when I wanted to get pregnant. That was 40 years ago. At that time, smoking was allowed almost everywhere, including in the hospital where I worked.
DH started also smoking in college. He quit for a short time when I did but it didn't last long. He smoked in our home for years, exposing our kids. (We didn't know all that we do now about second hand smoke.) In 1997 he came down with a very bad case of pneumonia while on our first trip to WDW without the kids. He couldn't work for 6 weeks and didn't smoke during that time. As soon as he went back to work, he started smoking again. I told him then that he was not going to expose me any longer so no smoking in the house or the car with me. He finally quit 14 years later, the day after he was told that he had stage 4 lung cancer. Some of his first words to me after we heard the diagnosis were: " I screwed up." It couldn't have been easy to give up cigarettes the day after receiving a death sentence, but he did it. He died 13 weeks later, after 44 years of smoking.
DH started also smoking in college. He quit for a short time when I did but it didn't last long. He smoked in our home for years, exposing our kids. (We didn't know all that we do now about second hand smoke.) In 1997 he came down with a very bad case of pneumonia while on our first trip to WDW without the kids. He couldn't work for 6 weeks and didn't smoke during that time. As soon as he went back to work, he started smoking again. I told him then that he was not going to expose me any longer so no smoking in the house or the car with me. He finally quit 14 years later, the day after he was told that he had stage 4 lung cancer. Some of his first words to me after we heard the diagnosis were: " I screwed up." It couldn't have been easy to give up cigarettes the day after receiving a death sentence, but he did it. He died 13 weeks later, after 44 years of smoking.