OK, I'm about to have a rant. Firstly I have to explain that I have mild angina, which means I have some of the arteries in my heart that are a little "furred", so the blood doesn't get through quite as quickly as it should do. One of the reasons that I thought I'd better stop smoking.
I went to see my cardiologist today, and I was excited about telling her I had stopped smoking. However she seemed very matter-of-fact about it and just seemed keen to move onto the next thing I must tackle. "You'll have to be careful what you eat and you must exercise more".
This was after telling her how good food tasted now: "I used to get home and have a cup of coffee and a couple of fags, now it's a cup of coffee and a couple of crumpets". Also I said I'd stopped getting any chest pains, to which she said: "You're living within the condition and I can't tell if I need to do anything if we don't know if you get pains when you’re exercising". In other words: "Get off your lazy ass and do something!".
Now, don’t get me wrong, she's absolutely right. But isn't it half the problem for us smokers? The professionals telling us to stop smoking have absolutely no idea what it's like and how difficult it really is, because they've probably never smoked before.
So I've come away really depressed, from thinking how well I'd done, to now thinking that I've got to start jogging/going to the gym/eating low calorie stuff, etc. One thing at a time would be good!
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