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Holly_Hobby

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1. If it's in your records, it's in your records
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 03:32 PM
Nov 2015

I'm considered a smoker for life because I used to be and my doctor obviously knew. I quit in 2000, but everyone I see in my local medical establishment calls me a smoker because I vape and chew the gum. I guess nicotine is nicotine since they can't tell the difference between smoking nicotine and ingesting nicotine. I keep hounding them to take a chest x-ray and compare it to the one I had in 1997, which they have, then tell me I'm a smoker.

You'll be listed as a former smoker, which will offer you a very slight decrease in what smokers pay. This according to the helper who tried to sign me up for the ACA.

I do think it's 30 days and out of your system, unless you're losing weight at the time, because it's stored in fat cells. At least that's what my doctor told me. So pig out for the Holidays and good luck

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