I've Been Waiting.......It's Begun

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My daughter has been smoking for 42 years. She has tried many times to quit. She has to want to, and part of her does want to, while the other part is just addicted. She has tried cold turkey, nicotine patches, and lozenges. She gets stressed, and it's too easy to go back to smoking. I have tried to help her with the stress, but it hasn't helped much. I also try to get her to talk to her doctor. This time she did. The doctor has put in an order for the patches again. I hope she will utilize them. The doctor also wants her to get a CT scan of her chest. I helped her set that up for June 3rd. I've been worrying about this for a long time. Inevitably, she will probably get some form of emphysema, but I thought it would happen after I was gone, and my grandson would have to deal with the horror of it. Or, miraculously, she would be able to quit, and her lungs would have a chance to heal. But, instead, this has begun. I remember (and have told my daughter) how awful it was to watch my grandfather die of emphysema. He could barely breathe, and it took all his strength to walk from the living room couch to the hallway and on into the bathroom to shave each morning. He had to make several stops and hold on to things as he went. It is horrible to watch someone break down like that. I've been seeing the signs. How winded she'd get coming upstairs. Now she sleeps downstairs, usually. She has started to cough, too. Some of us on here have illnesses in our families. We cope and have Mylot for a sounding board, and have made several friends. I am thankful I have this forum. May we all keep keepin' on and taking care of our own as well as we can.