Quit Smoking!

I received one of the best phone calls yesterday!

As any health care provider can tell you, it's a wonderful feeling when someone makes a positive change in their lives.

In this case, it was a couple (former patients of mine)...he with heart disease, she with probable emphysema. I had been given them suggestions and recommendation to quit smoking for a few years - they were never "ready" to do that. I asked them several times to then please take their smoking out of doors...but at least get it out of the house and car - both enclosed spaces.

It turns out that the gentleman was hospitalized this past winter. When he came home...he was done with smoking. In an effort to support her husband, this woman took her smoking out of doors (yes, even in the rain). Over the next few months she found she was smoking less and less. It was then she realized I was "right" and stopped smoking all together.

She called me yesterday to tell me it's been 4 months since they stopped and they both feel great! You know what...so do I!