Have you ever been hospitalised for double Pneumonia, sworn blind you would never, ever in a million years smoke again if you could only be able to draw one deep breath, miraculously recovered and been discharged having faithfully promised the doctors and nurses who cared for you that you would never smoke again (and meant it) only to ask your husband to walk you outside the minute you got home so you could smoke a cigarette? I have....
Have you ever bought 4 packets if cigarettes in a day smoking just one from each and tearing the rest up as you desparately battle to keep a doomed quit? I have....
Have you ever walked hand in hand with the man of your dreams in the hills on a wonderful Spring day, coughed with the slight exertion only to discover to your horror a glob of phlegm has escaped with the cough and is now sitting on your palm waiting for you to deal with it and/or explain.... I have...
Dear me. Why do we put ourselves through it? No more!
Amanda xxx