Increased sex drive? WHEEEE HOOOOOOOO...except I'd probably be biting a few heads off right now. AAAARRGGHHHHH

ah... the Praying Mantis approach to sex *Wicked Grin*!!

Just to give you more encouragement --

thank you
Thank You
Thank You
for quitting...

You know, when my mother was pregnant with me, she was given no warnings about not smoking during pregnancy, and she'd been a smoker since her teens. The only warning she'd been given was to avoid too much salt.

Ironically, the Surgeon General's warning against women smoking during pregnancy came out the day I was born.

I say "ironically" because I was born nine weeks premature, and at very low birthweight -- all of 21/4 pounds -- with an infection in one lung. My life was touch and go for the first night, and then a shot of penicillin saved me. But that critical period of not getting enough oxygen to my brain caused me to have cerebral palsy (a life-long condition).

Then, at around 16, I developed asthma. I'm not certain that I was more likely to develop asthma because of the trauma to my lungs early on, but I wouldn't be surprised...

Mostly though, it's how second hand smoke aggrivates my asthma now that bothers me. Being around tobacco smoke doesn't usually trigger an immediate attack, but in an hour or two after exposure, when I'm back home (where I can go for weeks without an attack at all) -- that's when the wheezing starts, and if I don't use my inhaler right away, the attacks get worse -- and they are very much like attacks -- you can breathe in, but you can't breathe out, and there's less and less room for the fresh air.

And you can't tell who has asthma and who doesn't just by looking.

So, *day-liah*, and Col. K, and anyone else who has quit or is in the process of quitting:

thank you
Thank You
Thank You
for making sure there is a little bit less of that smoke in the air.