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A Pleasant Surprise

I really need to start paying more attention to what is going on. I get so fixated on the obvious pitfalls and benefits of quitting smoking, that I lose track of other things that are important.

One of the reasons I quit, this time, was that I had problems with my legs. I had a lot of swelling, and blood circulation issues. Aside from the swelling, I had numbness in my feet. The numbness was on the bottom of my foot and in my toes. It was not real bad â€“ yet, but definitely there.

Now it is gone. I just realized that yesterday when I took off my shoe and massaged my poor sore foot. It took me a minute to realize that it was gone, but I sure was pleased when I did notice. This is a sure sign of healing. Knowing what nicotine does to blood vessels, I know this is a direct result of quitting smoking. The circulation is just so much better.

I also notice that the swelling is down in my legs, but that is probably only indirectly related to quitting. It is the walking I am doing which reduces the swelling, and I walk now because I can breath when I do.

After talking to my doctor about my leg problems, and how smoking affected them, I found more motivation to quit. I have a mental picture of my legs putrefying from lack of blood while I blissfully puff away on a cigarette. That vision has helped me not go back to smoking.

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