nenes78

I smoked for 18 years, about a pack a day at the end of it. My advice is change habits. I used to love to smoke after a meal, took that away first, I would wait at least an hour before lighting up. Also I quit chain smoking and would make my self wait at least 15 minutes in between, that slowly became more and more in between. Next was no smoking while in the car driving anywhere. That was tough but made the most difference. Those changes dropped my use down to about 5-6 a day. Then I went cold turkey after about 3 weeks of that. I have not looked back in the last 7 years. You can do it.

I had my last Options class on December 7th. Dec 13th saw the Dr Alskaf at my Kaiser who cleared me for the Surgeon and was called a week later to schedule the surgeons visit. I met Dr. Kim at Kaiser West LA on Jan 8th. I am very comfortable talking to him and he answered all my quetions and said the sleeve was good to go. His nurse said i should get a call from the scheduling department in about a week. She said to follow up with the scheduler if no call after a week. I called them yesterday after a week and a half, scheduled a surgery date and the pre surgery exam. They were pretty flexible for surgery dates in February and March. I scheduled for surgery on March 7th. If you haven't heard from anyone you should be able to call your case manager. Good luck.