Introduction to Forum.

[chinoy]

On 09/04/2014 I had my first heart attack or as the doctors call it a Anterior wall myocardial infraction.
With a Thrombus in mid Lad.

Luck was on my side. As at no time did I pass out. And there was no traffic. We first rushed to Santosh.
The junior doctor on duty there basically shat a brick. And after 15 Min. Asked me and my wife to leave.

He directed us to Fortis on Cuningham road.

At Fortis my life was saved by Dr. Prabhakar Koregol.
They have the ability to get into the heart with an coronary angiogram. And they where able to clear the clot. The doctor feels this was related to my smoking 4 packs a day.
So the smoking had to stop. And on date which is 23/4 I had not smoked.

I will write about my near death exp. My 2 nights in the ICU. And what I figured out while in a bed with a network of tubes hooked up.

A big heart felt thanks to the Nurses at Fortis. They are the true angles and if doctors are god. Then Nurses are real angles.
My respect for Nurses has shot thru the roof. What a profession. What a way to earn good karma.

So I have had to stop smoking.
Never in my life have I felt the urge to stop. My logic was my grand parents both smoked. And lived past 60. I told my self things like as long as I can get it up everyday. I dont have any circulation problems. I also told my self that the first sing that smoking was bad for me or really becoming a life and death issue I would stop smoking.

Well I got my warning / wake up call. And I have to stop. The reason I never wanted to stop before is because I really love and enjoy smoking.

So to make sure that I dont go back to smoking and so that I can still enjoy my smoke I have taken up the E- Cig. Or Vapping.
And I still crave to light up a real smoke. But it gets easier as each day passes.

I spent 2 days and 2 nights in the ICU. Saw people die. Saw the complications that smoking causes. Most of the people in the ICU where all middle aged.
One guy had a clot in his brain which has paralyzed him. The familly have to come up with a few lacks to operate on him. And there is no guarantee he would regain control of his limbs.

Another case the family had to come with 1.5 Lakhs per day for 7 days to pay for an injection. And again no surety it would even help.

My own treatment was delayed because they refused to admit me with my Insurance card. They insisted on payment up front. This is the only bit that pissed me off. You have a fully covered patient in front of you. Coding on a heart attack and your wasting time waiting for somebody to come up with cash or card at 3am. Insurance did clear the full payment by the time I checked out which was good.

So the truth of the matter is if you smoke. You are going to land up in the hospital. And its a roll of the dice what will hit you.
a. Fully body or partial body paraylisis.
b. Cancer of the mouth.
c. Cancer of the throat
d. Cancer of the Lungs.
e. Heart attack. Leading to damaged heart mussel.

Now if you where to just die. It would be simple. But you dont die. Right away. Its weeks and months of time in hospitals. And very very costly bills before you die.

So if this forum can help educate one more smoker about the dangers of smoking get them to stop I feel Ive achieved something in life. And Ive earned a bucket full off good Karma by preventing that person from having to face hospital time.

[rash]

We should strive to make RDD smoke free. No smoking at meets/rides/ trackdays etc.
5hp more for those who quit smoking.

Thank God you are safe. Lets work to keep it that way.

[dafc]

Glad to read you are well Ron and it is even better you decided to kick the habit tobacco never really did anybody any good.

[chethangowda86]

ron it would be nice if it was made a sticky.. and you could also post it on fb. that way it will reach out to more people.

Cheers

[darshansebastian]

I quit smoking last month when I still had a fresh pack on my side table. I pulled out one cigarette from it l, enjoyed it and decided that was the last one. I still have the pack on my side table collecting dust.

10 days of will power is what it takes to get rid of smoking (my opinion)
10 days + the next 2 times you go out drinking are trying times. Once you manage to cross that, you have own half the battle.

Get back fit as a horse RON, there are many dreams yet to be fulfilled. (including those of your family and mine )

[mohsihummer]

Get well soon
didnt know the your health issue and smoking probs were that serious..
Im trying to quit too
this vaping forum is a good initiative. looking forward to all the reviews, the mods and experiments...
I have a feeling that this will go the same way of cars and bikes.. buy something one can afford and keep modding it to ridiculous levels..

[vivekjayasheel]

Good to know you've kicked the butt. And don't worry dude, you'll outlive us all, LOL.