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·Hi everyone.I would really like to hear opinions regarding whether or not I should just throw in the IBS towel and start smoking again.I am 98% certain that if I start smoking again, the monster that now lives inside me will be tamed again and I'll be able to have my life back.Story short form: My bowels had always been "Flaky", but once I was done in the morning I never, ever had to think or worry about them again for the rest of the day. I could eat pretty much what I wanted, when I wanted to. (Some lactose intolerance, some flatulence nothing too exciting or hard to deal with. Totally managable.) Then--one year ago today--I quit smoking and everything in my life changed.Within two weeks of quitting I had my first D attack in a public place and it's been downhill from there...you all know the drill. I now pretty much have no life left. I've tried pretty much everything one can try; I've had the full range of tests and scopings, two GIs and my GP all trying to say it was a coincidence that it all went haywire when I quit. It's officially IBS. Nothing has really helped, and I'm so terrified about what my bowels are going to do next I have no brain space for anything else. I'm exhausted and just ground down and hopeless. You know what I'm talking about.But everyone said: "give it a year." It's now been a year.So here's what I want to ask y'all: if you knew there was something you could do to make your IBS basically go away, but would kill you in many other ways, would you do it? Would you take the risk?I smoked for 16 years. I am currently long past the point of thinking smoking is attractive or seems inticing--as a matter of fact it's pretty gross: I just want my bowels under control again and my life back.Thoughts?Thanks for listening,Andrew