‘Walking Wounded’ Share Jarring Stories For No-Smoking Campaign

(By Jocelyn Wiener For Kaiser Health News)

Felicita Soto remembers finding blood in the oddest places. On her pillow in the morning. In her sandwich after she took a bite. Once, a coworker whispered with disgust: “Felicita, you’re bleeding.”

Soto felt mortified. She’d recently kicked a smoking habit she’d had since age 12. But it was too late for her teeth. Eventually, she found herself in a dentist’s chair, getting 23 extracted at once.

Now 56 and living in Orlando, Florida, Soto describes that experience as “the most torturous thing I ever went through.” Read article here…..

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