Originally posted by KYS
Thoughts and prayers for you and your family that
your father will be ok. Hope the proceedure works
in a few weeks.

Micki,
My dad was a 3 pack a day chain smoker.
He had the beginnings of emphysema but
that did not even make him quit.
He quit years later on a lousy $50.00 bet with his best friend.
How good that he lost that bet! Some things are meant to be lost.

My mother only quit when lung cancer killed her. She was only 47. Her last words were to ask my Dad to light her a smoke. Sad isn't it, that something could have that kind of hold on her? She was always so angry with 2 of her brothers who were alcoholics, yet she was an addict herself.