I am an EXsmoker...on bad days it sometimes appeals to me. BUT I SAY QUIT!!!!!!! There are NO BENEFITS TO SMOKING! I've seen it kill too many people, including my dad. QUIT honey! TODAY!

love, Morus

DITTO Morus. My muscles still hurt, but I am not putting pressure on them with my coughing. I quit about 6 months ago. Smoking has claimed the lives of my mum age 50, 3 sisters. 1 at age 47, 2 age 51, and 3 just last december age 54 and 2 months. All of them died horribly, my dad died of emphysemia at the age of 61.. if your suseptible then smoking aggravates.

We all nobody should smoke, so if you can possibly quit, do.I smoke, and in my case the doctor said the stress I put onself by trying to quit is worse than the smoking it self. She said she trying to keep it to a minumum without stressing about how many, and when the time is right, we'll address the issue of quitting. I've quit lots of time, and gone barc to it within a couple of weeks. Surprizingly, since she told me that, I do smoke less. I gues because now that I don't feel anxious and guilty about it, I just don't need as many. Oh, what a complicated thing our mind is!

I just quit and then i started smoking again Im taking Chantix it works and then I stopped taking it and it stopped working I dont know its such a personal choice!!!!!!!

i dont smoke and i have chronic bronchitis . drs says very rare in non smoker. but was in enough to kill ten people.hubby died because of it and the kids all but one still smoke.but dont do a lot in the house.on acct of the little ones.

I smoked for about 32 years. Since I quit about 6 years ago my muscle and joint pain is down about 75%. Using my hands was so painful I could hardly do anything but since I quit smoking they bother me very little.

I do smoke now and then though, a pack maybe twice a year. However, after a couple of drags my muscles start to ache again and I feel awful if I smoke more than 3 cigarettes in a day.

I used the patches to help me quit and a LOT of prayer! It is definitly worth it to quit. Yes, it is stressful to quit but smoking does make the FM worse. Besides the FM you know it's hard on your heart and everything else but you have to make the decision to quit for yourself.

i smoke too. I had quit for 2 years, then I got the fibro DX, my job sucked! and my best friend moved, so I started again UGH !!! I will probably quit again when I am ready, but for now I am back to smoking.

TC N Hugs Judy

I quit smoking in 1991. When my son was rushed to hospital and put on a ventilator the stress was just enormous. I stood in the hospital hall and all of a sudden I was yearning for a cigarette. I got a pack and it relaxed me. Since that time, I made a few lame attempts at quitting. Then one day I thought, I really enjoy smoking, I am 64, I will die of something probablu within the next 20 yrs. so to hell with it. I live alone and don't smoke around others. I would ALWAYS be an advocate for NOT smoking, but not a role model. I hurt like hell and it is an enjoyment. I have put the guilt to bed. sue

I quit smoking in 1991. When my son was rushed to hospital and put on a ventilator the stress was just enormous. I stood in the hospital hall and all of a sudden I was yearning for a cigarette. I got a pack and it relaxed me. Since that time, I made a few lame attempts at quitting. Then one day I thought, I really enjoy smoking, I am 64, I will die of something probablu within the next 20 yrs. so to hell with it. I live alone and don't smoke around others. I would ALWAYS be an advocate for NOT smoking, but not a role model. I hurt like hell and it is an enjoyment. I have put the guilt to bed. sue

Boni, I never smoked and I am glad that I never smoked since I have asthma and whenever I am around someone who is smoking or has smoked I start coughing and have to leave the room.

Sorry I only hit the ADD box once. Clutz problem.

I am a smoker.Don't really want to be but after 40+years welldoubt I will stop. More than one Dr. has told me I wouldn't be able to handle the stress. Tried and they where right. I cannot take any of the aids to quit smoking either as it effects my liver.

I smoke and personally I enjoy it and dont plan on quitting. I tried to quit last year and then mom died and that got shot to hell. I thankfully do not have a smokers cough.

I smoke and my doctor knows it and does not say not to. I think since we are in so much pain, what is one vice?? If you like smoking, do so, I do.

Ex-smoker here. I quit for 12 years, had major stress and depression and started again. Did my FINAL quit with hubby as a New Year's resolution, back in 2002. I'll never start again. I was a horrible smoker, always leaving packs and lighters everywhere! LOL

My mom and her hubby just quit 2 weeks ago on Champix. He was a 3 pack smoker and she was a 1 packer who LOVED smoking. Now, she says it makes her throw up.