I've been so irresponsible

[Chileanay]

Hi everyone!!.. Im so glad the forum is back, I really missed all you people and I'm happy to read about your lifes and recoverys.
Maybe some of you don't remember me, I don't post to much because of the language, but I read it all the time, I got adicted to it.
about my own recovery, everything seems well, I graduated and now I'm a business psychologist, a lot of work and no headaches!!! cool!
I have a 14 mm right carotid friend coiled (Sept 2005) on my head.
BUT!!! I'm no takin my daily Aspirin, and I'm smoking again.... if my doc knows this he'll kill me, i don't really know why I lost that "be healthy" feeling I just don't feel like I have something anormal in my head anymore.


well.... Nice to read you all again, and nice to know the new ones, prayers for you, bye bye



Nay, from Chile

[jazzyk726]

Hello, My father still tries to sneak a cigarette from my stepmom and acts like a kid when he gets caught.. he is 60years old.. but don't beat yourself up.. everyone has their own vises.. When you want to quite, you will.. You can read about him on the "How Many Survivors are Out there?" Thread, if you'd like?

Take Care,

Jazzyk726:D :D :D :D :D :p :p :p :p

[jordal]

ya i quit, then started again bad bad bad but... ns said if it gonna stress me out alot, then just try to cut down... i thought he was gonna lecture me big time, but he looked at me when i told him i smoked and said... u know the risks right u know its bad for u and increases ur risk of not only the aneurysm but many other things then i wont preach whe n yr ready ul quit... but i highly recomend u do...
so whats worse? the lecture or the disapointed dad feeling!!! well i still smoke full time.. but not as heavy.... all the best.. jordal!

[FireflyR7]

:o Your not alone!! I started smoking after 7 months of quiting???? :( I can't seem to stop even though I know it can kill me??? This is a tough situation for all of us and us smokers always depended on them durring stressful times! Doesn't get much more stressful than this!!! My NS would kill me too! I was supposed to get a angiogram this month for my 1 year check up, but I know I can't since I have been smoking so much???? I have to quit!! I just don't know how?? :( I keep praing about it!!! Don't beat yourself up!!! We just have to try to quit, before it is too late!!! :eek: Good luck!! Tricia / Firefly :cool:

[dawnmn]

Hi Nay,

Your english is just fine. I had quit smoking for a year after my rupture and started again. I think I enjoy it too much to give it up. I don't smoke as many as I used to but it's still not good for me. My doctors just shake their head at me and remind me that they had pumped alot of the tar out of my lungs. My family has given up on me quiting also. You should take your daliy asprin it helps with preventing blood clots.

Dawn

[xNikx]

Hi, I'm a non smoker and don't (as far as I know) have an annie (my mum does though, that's why Icome on here :) )... BUT! I can totally understand how hard it is to give up just because you've been told to.

My mum smoked from the age of 14 to 53, which was a year ago. She gave up on her own accord, for 2 reasons. Firstly, she couldn't afford to smoke anymore, living on her own with mortgage and bills to pay... and being out of work for the first time in her life. Then secondly, she just decided to. No big thought process, no 'health scare' reasons (at that time), she just did it.

Now, giving up was hard, but not starting to smoke again was a different matter.

She'd been packed up for 4 months when she was diagnosed with her annie. Her nuro surgeon asked her if she smoked, to which she proudly said 'no'. He then said 'good, if ever you feel like having a cigarette make sure it's the last thing you ever want to do on this earth. Your blood preasure will rocket from the nicoteen rush, with fatal results'.

It scared the bejeebees out of me, and I beleive it's the only thing that's kept my mum from starting again through all this stress.

Even if he was exagerating, it worked, so I thank him for that.

Nik.