For three years, Marina (1) has not touched a cigarette. A sort of redemption for this former smoker who “40 years of tobacco” behind her. A sudden realization, the day after a transient stroke which almost cost him his life.
A first cigarette at 16
“I remember the day I started: I was 16, I was on vacation with my cousin in Joué-lès-Toursremembers the fifty-year-old in great detail. She was a year older than me, she smoked. She handed me one and said, “Go ahead, smoke.” I coughed a lot and a few days later I bought my first pack. »
Neither his three pregnancies, nor the warnings from his doctors, nor even the worried warnings from his grown children stopped him. For as long as she can remember, Marina smoked an average of a pack a day. “I never got the hang of it”observe-t-elle.
Until this day in September 2021 when she found herself on a stretcher, awaiting an operation « pour (him) save life.” Alerted by a « intense fatigue » who hasn’t left her since and a vision problem “a few minutes” Arriving in the middle of summer, she was taken to the ophthalmic emergency room.
There, she learned that she had suffered a transient ischemic attack and that she needed emergency surgery due to an acute risk of stroke. A sequence “traumatic”which will also be a real trigger for stopping smoking.
“Proud and happy” to have stopped
She who, “even strapped into his stretcher, still thought about going out to smoke a cigarette”, hasn’t been touched since leaving the hospital. “I am proud and happy”she attests with a big smile. “I have regained my breath, I no longer cough, I no longer catch colds at the slightest opportunitylists this repentant smoker. And then, it’s nice to be able to follow the entire conversations at a dinner! »
“The accident I had was clearly due to tobacco, there is no doubt”plants the one who not only smoked, but also suffered from smoking for more than twenty years behind the counter of the bar she ran in the Beaujardin district of Tours. “It’s an addiction that is very hard and what’s a shame is waiting until you’re scared to stopshe points out. I have after-effects from all that. It’s better to realize this beforehand. And even let’s do prevention with the youngest before they touch it! »
(1) Better known by her first name to those around her, she did not want her last name to appear.
