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Brian
  • By Brian · New reply 5:25 pm
  • Journal · 107 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

Quitting smoking is soooo hard!

CaseynIowa
  • By CaseynIowa · New reply September 10, 2008
  • Discussion in Smoking cessation strategies · 2 replies
  • First of all I'd like to say I am very surprised not to see very many discussions in this group. Hopefully I can help change that =) Warning: Really long post. I think all smokers hate smoking on some ...

My Dear twin Betty hair loss

Barbietwin
  • By Barbietwin · New reply August 10, 2008
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • Last night my twin Betty called me very upset her hair is falling out, her chemo dr said she wouldnt lose much, oh my, alot is comming out...she was so upset, i felt so bad for her.... shes on chemo and ...

My twins oncologist said she should have started chemo 2 months ago...

Barbietwin
  • By Barbietwin · New reply August 10, 2008
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • Hello, well my twin is seeing an oncologist, she starts her chemo and radiation tommorow. My twins non small cell lung cancer spread secondary tumor by her heart and many lympths involved, well im upset ...

im sad......hardly no one visits my twin...(family)

Barbietwin
  • By Barbietwin · New reply August 10, 2008
  • Journal · 12 replies
  • hello, Im having a hard time here, Im there for my twin betty.... and so is 2 other sisters, well we have 8 siblings and they never call to check onher or ask to see her to spend quaility time with her ...

first journal entry

andmegab
  • By andmegab · New reply August 3, 2008
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • july 1, 2008 i should have started this journal a long time ago. showing all the frustration and hell i went thru to find a good team. how much support i got from quite unexpected sources, and how little ...

Quitting smoking and Insomnia?

coppa_keepa
  • By coppa_keepa · New reply July 8, 2008
  • Discussion in Help and encouragement · 6 replies
  • I'm curious if any of you that have quit remember severe insomnia? If so, how long did it last? I'm pretty concerned as I have poor sleep and a tendency towards insomnia anyway. But since quitting cigarettes ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply July 7, 2008
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

just wondering

andmegab
  • By andmegab · New reply July 6, 2008
  • Discussion in Help and encouragement · 1 reply
  • how is everyone doing with the whole quitting smoking thing ...

SEEN MY SISTERS BETTY LUNG SPECIALIST

Barbietwin
  • By Barbietwin · New reply July 6, 2008
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • Well monday seen my twin sisters lung specialist for me to be screened with pet scan spiral of lungs.... because we are identical twins...well he said i allready had one a few months ago hmmmm whats with ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 22, 2008
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

quitting

andmegab
  • By andmegab · New reply June 20, 2008
  • Discussion in Smoking cessation strategies · 2 replies
  • looking for strategies to help quit smoking when you are already overwhelmed with everything. thanks, deb ...

**Updated** System maintenance: Tuesday June 10th, 5 am - 7 am Eastern

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 5, 2008
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • ** Updated ** Due to power outages caused by storms in the Washington, DC area, we need to postpone this maintenance until Tuesday June 10th, from 5 am to 7 am. Thanks for your patience. ** Updated ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 27, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...

Need other's support

lappl22
  • By lappl22 · New reply April 12, 2008
  • Discussion in Help and encouragement · 1 reply
  • I stopped smoking less than 2 weeks ago using the drug Chantix. It works on the physical addiciton, but I could use help with the mental stuff ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply April 7, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

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