Have any of you been smokers or do still smoke ?

[sandgroundergirl]

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Yes and I have just stopped ( again ) 7 weeks ago, I am stuck up with patches and attacking a hinhilator, I have to go down to a weaker patch on Wednesday morning, I am grumpy, itching all over and blown up like a balloon, and it's not through eating too much as i don't really want to eat either.

[littlemo]

yes I did smoke for about 15yrs am ashamed to say but gave up about yrs ago. Why do you ask?

[littlemo in reply to littlemo]

That was supposed to say 7yrs ago i quit thankfully its a very bad unhealthy habit best thing I ever did quittting!

[highwood]

Hi I stopped smoking 4years ago, i started aged 7yrs old ( DISGUSTING) and stopped at 60 yrs old. I have been ill ever since all my probs. and i have a few have been in the last 4 years, but i would NEVER go back to smoking. I gave up on the electronic cigarette and done it so easily.

Best wishes Sue

[Boysanboys59]

Hi.yes ,I'm a 20a day smoker ,been smoking cinch i was 13.my consultant told me to try and pack it up,but sadly ive no willpower ,but keep trying .my stress levels are high at the mo.asked consultant if this would aggravate my pbc if i didn't stop and he said probably not but would give me other medical problems to add to it.so have faith in yourself.keep trying to quit.hard i know but we will succeed at some point. .good luck.

[My-life in reply to Boysanboys59]

I Believe we can.

[TracyLou]

Yes I smoked for 12 years gave up when I became pregnant with my 1st child 12 years ago and not smoked since. I am really pleased I could give up so easily, also due to my partner hating that I smoked helped a lot.

[lainey67]

I stopped a yr ago with the help of the E light electic cig i am now worried what is in that.Consultant told me that they have found a link between smoking and pbc.

[JennerLayne]

I'm curious to know why you asked. I've never been a smoker but grew up in a household where my mother and father each smoked 2 packs daily ---- 4 packs of second hand smoke for 18 years. Incidentally, my mother, aunt and grandmother all smokers --- passed away from lung cancer.

[littledragon23]

I have been a smoker for 29 years and stopped in January of this year, when I had pneumonia. At that time I just did not feel like smoking anymore and still don't crave it all. However, looking back at 8 month cigarette free, I can't fathom anymore why I ever smoked in my life.

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I've never been a smoker but I was raised by 2 parents who were.

I used to get very bad cough each winter and sort of made a barking sound. I still feel that bark when I occasonally cough during the colder months. I do think that due to being what is termed passive smoker it did affect my lungs whilst growing up.

My husband grew up also with 2 parents who smoked and he wsa forever at the doctors with bad chests during the colder months. Touch wood (my head!) since he moved into my non-centrally-heated home just before we married in 2009 he's not had cause for a chest complaint through the colder months altho' sometimes he says he knows he has a mild chest infection. Before he moved in he visited the GP with his chest, was given antibiotics and an inhaler which he didn't understand why. He never returned to the GP at a later date and hasn't since. He seems to think that since he quit having a 'flu jab prior to 2009 he has felt a lot better during winter.

My father died aged 56. He was said to have emphysema a few years prior to his death in 1997. He struggled to give up his lifelong smoking and when he was rushed to hospital with something unconnected and operated on, he ended up on a ventilator and a couple weeks later he died. His cause of death was put down to COPD.

My husband's father passed away last year. He spent the last few years of his life on steroids, antibiotics and also a nebuliser and then oxygen. He continued smoking until he found he couldn't. COPD was the cause of his death.

Then my husband's mother, she has COPD now and she spent last Christmas and New Yr in hospital on oxygen and steroids and antibiotics, all put down to lifelong smoking (she is 70). She pulled through but wasn't long after she took up the smoking again and still is.

Definitely not good reading. My husband gets annoyed now as he says I have been diagnosed with PBC and was never a drinker whereas his own parents have caused their own demise/problems due to smoking.

[My-life]

My parents didnt smoke. 2 sisters one with scederma one with non hopkins lipfoma. Cant spell it. All auto immune. PBC.