Struggling waiting diagnosis

I'm sure you know the saying OzStu, "one's too many, a million's not enough"?  If you have strong willpower and the right mindset, almost anything can be conquered.

That's my thinking, for what it's worth...

Are we talkoing about smokes or money here lol

You know fine well the saying hasn't anything to do with money.  If you can't quit the smokes, then you have no real desire to do so.  And yes, I do know what I'm talking about.

Well I already quite months ago,  as soon as i suspected a lesion was cancer,  long before diagnosed.  And I don't have cravings now,  and I know that even one beer will bring that back,  so I decline even one drink now too.  You see,  I know now, that any degree of smoking will lead to recurrence eventually,  100 percent for sure,  even if it's ten years time, even if there is not one cancer cell left aive after my treatment.  I new accurence will happen eventually if I smoke.  So even if  had a desire to smoke,  I wouldn't.

Well that's good to hear, and I wish you well in your endeavours.  I don't know if you saw an earlier post I made to the OP, but some cancers won't allow smoking ever again, as in the case of my fella.  His surgery took the cancer away but also the ability to breathe through his mouth and nose, for good.  Now unless he can devise a way to stick a cig into the stoma in his neck and smoke it, he could have cracked it.  Common sense says not possible - goodbye smoking forever, but a fair old price to pay.

Righto OzStu, I reckon we should wrap this up, as there's a guy on here who's done his level best to quit.  We should both send him our best wishes that the trend continues and we'll support him fully, and his wife, in what they may have to face.  Agreed?

Night xx

Gill H said:

Righto OzStu, I reckon we should wrap this up, as there's a guy on here who's done his level best to quit.  We should both send him our best wishes that the trend continues and we'll support him fully, and his wife, in what they may have to face.  Agreed?

Yes...... The poor chap MAY have a fight on his hands and he doesn't need to read about some of us who might not make it 

Hey great you found the online community, have you tried the talking to the Macmillan support line either by phone or online really helped me when I was first diagnosed.

Hi Gil. When I’m back from my jaunts round Spain we can meet up for a coffee. Even if it only in town Wakefield or out of town. I’m meeting uk in Spain with i

cancer buds si sure I can do Wakefield   Also meeting a lady in Plymouth en way to ferry.  Glad mis  Farrell or Elenor has she told me to call her remembers me. Once seen never forgotten that’s me going 5 foot Yorkshire lass 

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Morning Hazel.

Snap!  Same height, probably bigger gob!  Yorkshire through and through - apart from the Austrian, Hungarian and Romanian bits of me.

That sounds like a plan for a future date, and I'd love a meet up.  Two Vera Duckworths together!

Hugs back xxx

Hi Sweet21Pea, yes I think I will definitely be reaching out to speak with someone. Being honest when the possibility of this journey happening initially hit I was struggling badly but as the days have passed I think I'm very slowly coming to terms with it, a lot of that being quiet honest is down to this group & reading the stories which has given me hope. Think my main issue at the moment is the doomsday thinking that hits every now again.