Another way to put that is that you found the strength to quit smoking 20 years ago. You were young at the time, allowing your body time to heal from the smoking. That one decision to quit smoking 20 years ago, puts you into a much stronger position to deal with your health issues today.

I know this from personal experience. I started smoking when I was in high school. I was 17 years old. I was soon smoking 2 packs a day. When I was 35 years old, after taking a biology course at a community college, I realized that I had to quit. That was 1986, about 28 years ago.

I had a recent MG crisis that put me into the hospital for 6 days. Can you imaging how much more difficult that crises would have been had I continued to smoke for the last 28 years?

-Mark-