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I, too, am a weak, unmotivated, disgusting smoker!!! I worry about the effects everyday. I have quit--cold turkey-- twice for 9 months--I have two beautiful little ones, Devin 4 yrs. and Zachary 2yrs., but I can't seem to find the strength to quit for myself. I haven't really even started a plan to quit now, especially when I'm just learning to live with my band!!!! Smoking is one of the few things in life that I TRUELY enjoy, now that I eat to live, not live to eat!!!

I take a supplement I got at GNC, called Thermoburst---they sell it only from behind the counter-:nervous it does help with my energy level, especially for exercise. I haven't found that it caused jitters at all, that's why I LOVE it1 The only problem I have with taking it ( I take all of my medications whole with warm coffee in the A.M. ) is that post-fill for a few days I get a slight burning sensation in the chest from it---Mylanta REALLY helps, but once my stomach calms down from being filled, i'm okay. Banded October 18, 2005 By DR. STEPHEN MALLEY, OVERLAND PARK, KS. 213/186/120

Hello, all! I am getting ready to schedule my surgery for sometime in October. I started my "journey" (actually feels a lot like the road to Hell!) in May, 2005. It took a long time for my insurance company to finally deny me for surgery. I will be going to the Mid-West Institute of Bariatric Surgery (Lenexa, Ks.) next week to make my appt. with Dr. Jessie Lopez. Does anyone have any experience with this Doctor or his office? So far, I have had a lot of trouble getting them to return my phone calls when I was trying to make the appt. I will be paying for the surgery on my own---it seems like a LOT of money! BTW-I am 215lbs., 5'4', hoping to get to 130.