quit smoking: Benefits of Quitting Smoking in 2011
- 01/03/11 04:08 AM
The New Year is upon us. We're 3 days in! Every year, I like to encourage folks to stick with it since day three may be one of the hardest! I'm inspired each year to write this because of family experiences. My Father and Grandfather each had heart attacks. They were both MDs. My dad still is practicing medicine even at the ripe old age of 71. Grandpa Bettag had a heart attact at 55 and my father at 50. The X factor is that each of them smoked. As a result, we don't know if it's hereditary or nature. Irrepectively, (11 comments)
quit smoking: Benefits of Quitting Smoking
- 01/21/10 04:08 AM
The New Year is upon us. We're 1 month into it. Wow! It's not too late to get back on that horse. I'm inspired each year to write this because of family experiences. My Father and Grandfather each had heart attacks. They were both MDs. My dad still is practicing medicine even at the ripe old age of 71. Grandpa Bettag had a heart attact at 55 and my father at 50. The X factor is that each of them smoked. As a result, we don't know if it's hereditary or nature. Irrepectively, my father went to Mid-America Heart Institute in (7 comments)
quit smoking: Benefits of Qutting Smoking
- 11/12/08 12:48 AM
My Father and Grandfather each had heart attacks. They were both MDs. My dad still is even at the ripe old age of 71. Grandpa Bettag had a heart attact at 55 and dad at 50. The X factor is that each of them smoked. As a result, we don't know if it's hereditary or nature. Irrepectively, my father went to Mid-America Heart Institute in Kansas City. Even though we live just west of Chicago, he did his research and found that they do more heart procedures per year by almost 3 to 1 to 10 to 1 over any Chicago (20 comments)
1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.” (John 14:1-4, New King James Version)