my name is kevin, and i've been smoking for 35 years. i found out today that i have emphysema. when i got back from the doctor's office, i went online to see what i could find out about emphysema, and ended up here (the american lung association's "freedom from smoking" program online). introduction

several of the back doors mentioned in the last part of module 1 (of the american lung association's "freedom from smoking" program) apply to me, but i think the biggest is fear of failure, and this morning i had an insight as to why that might be: a positive role model for quitting

the original list of reasons why i wanted to quit smoking: reasons i wanted to quit

part of the american lung association's freedom from smoking program was to list potential relapse situations and what you planned to do instead of smoking; here are a couple of mine: planning ahead

the last lesson in module 2 (of the american lung association's freedom from smoking program online) asked us to post about why health reasons weren't sufficient to motivate us to quit smoking already - in my case, i guess they never seemed "real" to me until now. even though i watched my father struggle with smoking almost until the day he died of cancer, it still wasn't happening to *me*... quitting for health reasons