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Topic: How Did You Ex-Smokers Quit Without Relapse?
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Stephen Furley
Film God
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Posts: 3059
From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 08-04-2003 01:57 PM
I tried my first cigarette aged about 8; it tasted absolutely foul. I thought it could only get better, so I tried another one, it didn't, I gave up, and have never smoked since.
Maybe 8 is getting a bit too old; if we were to give cigarettes to five year olds to try it would put them off for life!
My parents both smoked very heavily, 40-50 per day each. Both managed to stop towards the end of their lives, and both come to rather unpleasant ends, but through diseases which were not smoking related.
Not starting in the first place is much easer than giving up.
A colleague at work who is trying to stop has a post card pinned up over his desk with a picture of two lungs, one healthy, and the other from a heavy smoker. I once went to the post-mortum of someone who had been a heavy smoker. If I had been a smoker myself I think what I saw would have made me stop. Not pleasant, but effective.
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Phil Hill
I love my cootie bug
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Posts: 7595
From: Hollywood, CA USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-04-2003 06:08 PM
Years ago I started smoking cuz when I went out clubbin' "everyone" smoked and it was "supposed to be" cool.
Well, I did that for about 5 years and then one night many years ago at 3 AM, I ran out of those cancer sticks and ***had*** to have one. So, I got dressed and went out to a 7-11 to get a carton.
While driving back home and lighting up, I thought to myself... "Gosh, I really am addicted and a slave to this crap."
I threw the cig, the pack, and the carton out the car window and never looked back!
I know it's hard to quit...especially cold turkey, but ya GOTTA do it.... PAUL!!!!!!
To this day, after certain meals and at certain times, I still get a twitch for a cig. BUT I will never go back! It's a dirty, filthy, unhealthy habit!
I got sooo sick and tired of going to bed or leaving the house trying to remember if I put that cig out. NO MORE.. NEVER AGAIN!!
>>> Phil
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 08-04-2003 06:26 PM
I'm in complete agreement with David's judgment on smoking.
I have a lot of sympathy for those who have been smoking for decades and started during a time when popular culture heavily promoted it. In the 1940's, 50's and 60's you were pretty much a pansy if you didn't smoke. The health concerns about it only started getting a lot of serious attention in the 1970's.
During that age many people did not fully know the addictive nature of nicotine. They didn't know the full extent of health problems that go with cigarette smoking. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin and just as difficult to quit (relapse rates among cigarette smokers and heroin users are roughly the same --only drugs like crystal methamphetamine are more acutely addictive). The tobacco industry sure as hell wasn't telling anyone the truth during this time --even though they knew how dangerous their product really was. So I cannot fault anyone who started smoking during this time.
Both of my parents smoked when they were younger. And I mean they smoked a lot. Growing up, I hardly ever saw my mother or father without a lit cigarette. If we went driving somewhere, they'd both have cigarettes lit up, flicking ashes out the window --and having molten hot "cherries" fly back and hit my brother and I in the face. There's no sensation quite like having a glowing tobacco ember fly up under your eyelid and burn your eyeball.
But then my mother's father was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1976. I remember my grandfather rolling his own cigarettes as he taught my brother and I how to ride a dirtbike. He was really cool, but didn't look so cool a month before his death. His left lung had been removed. He had this bandage on his ribcage covering a hole in his chest. There was mucus or some kind of fluid dripping out from underneath it. I was 10 years old when I saw that, and that's the image I think of when it comes to cigarette smoke.
When my grandfather was buried both of my parents quit cold turkey and never smoked again. My brother and I swore never to start.
These days everyone knows cigarette smoking is the #1 preventable cause of death. Everyone knows the damned things are addictive, expensive, filthy and lots of other bad stuff. So whenever I see some 15 year old junior high schooler lighting up, I freely judge that kid to be a stupid f**king idiot. And I don't think my tax dollars or insurance premiums should help out his dumb ass when he develops health problems over it decades from now.
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