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Why Quitting Smoking is Good for Your Heart

Melanie Thomassian
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My interest in health care began at a very young age, eventually...

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We all know that smoking isn't good for our heart, don't we? In fact, it's responsible for more than 440,000 annual deaths each year in the US.   It's such a widespread and significant risk factor that the Surgeon General has called it, "The leading preventable cause of disease and deaths in t...
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    pooh6160
    Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    my husband was in the hospital in early march for breathing problems which was diagnased with a partial collasped lung, onset of pnemania which caused his blood pressure to go up (under-control with rx).after follow-ups with a lung dr and a heart dr, he has severe copd(o2 at home which he uses when needed) and the tests show he might be a diabetic but, we will know more when our yearly check-up happens in may.

    i'm very prove of him because he has not had a cigarette since he was in the hospital.maybe that's what it took for him to quit smoking.

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    Melanie Thomassian
    Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 05:06 PM

    I can just imagine how proud you are of him!! That's great. I do hope he recovers well from his recent illness, I'm sure it's been a difficult time for you both.

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    jennifer
    Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 09:03 PM

    thank you for your support.  it's been more diffuilt for me than him.each day is proving more interesting cause he can smell more things than before.

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