It appears I might have a slight problem.
Between the wife and the experts, it looks like I should quit smoking.
The experts I can see from time to time. The wife, I see every day...
It appears I might have a slight problem.
Between the wife and the experts, it looks like I should quit smoking.
The experts I can see from time to time. The wife, I see every day...
The same thing. But add in the last four weeks two close friends have fallen ill. One has smoked so much for so long and done nothing his lungs are like tissue paper, yet he still smokes. Spent 2 weeks including 3 days in intensive care The other was a casual smoker, but woke up barfing blood. He has stage 3 stomach cancer, and its unknown when and if he will get out. Both are younger than I. Yet I still have my 5-7 ciggies a day. Thank goodness I did not start until I moved here. My kids know I smoke because of the smell, but have never seen me have a smoke.
Fucking silly habit. It is addictive. I know when I quit I will still have one in the morning to turn on my aging cpu with coffee, and keep me "regular". But I know I can do it. I have to do it as the family is really on me after these two fell sick.
You do it, and I will follow hilly. The sad part is I had it down to 2 a day until the floods hit last year. One with coffee, one after dinner.
tell you straight Hilly if you don't want to you won't .
Strong but true advice. Its getting close to a deadline for me. Daughters are turning 15 in October. They are in a great school with great grades. I want to be around. I dont want to stink. So....... fingers crossed.
Thanks for that mid.
My old dear's 81 and still puffin away without a wheeze or cough. Enjoy your life. Stoppin now ain't goin to make much of a difference.
Hard to do. After suffering a major traumatic injury many years ago, I got hooked on heavy duty painkillers. It took me a year to beat it. Also had a booze problem many years ago, took a long time to get that under control as well. But smokes.....way harder. Quit once upon a time for TEN YEARS, and started again. Am off now, but those fucking things are a bitch to offload. Best of luck, bro.
Just to add insult to injury so to speak. I have a mate who is now addicted to nicotine gum
^Originally Posted by superman
fallacy .
If you stop smoking now, the benefits start in 20 minutes.
About 20 minutes after your last cigarette, your body already has begun to respond to your decision to quit smoking:Eight hours after you quit smoking, your blood has begun to recover from the effects of smoking. The levels of both carbon monoxide and oxygen in your bloodstream return to normal.
- Your blood pressure goes down
- Your pulse rate slows
- The temperature of your hands and feet increases
Within 24 hours, your chance of a heart attack has already decreased as your system repairs itself. About 48 hours after you quit smoking, nerve endings deadened by the habit have begun to regenerate and your sense of taste and smell has already improved.
A few weeks after you quit smoking, your circulation has improved and your lungs have begun to function better. Walking and exercising become much easier. Within the first few months, your phlegm production has decreased and you won’t find yourself coughing or wheezing as much.
Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Quitting Smoking - Smoking Cessation Center - EverydayHealth.com
Oh shit Doctor Mid,
I agree and am going to do it. Oct 16th will be the last. Save one a day with coffee in the morning, " So help me god".
Quitting right now. 20 minutes you say!! Hey darling, come see me at 8PM.Originally Posted by Mid
Erectile Dysfunction Linked To Smoking
"Men who smoke cigarettes run an increased risk of experiencing erectile dysfunction, and the more cigarettes smoked, the greater the risk, according to a study by Tulane University researchers published in the American Journal of Epidemiology."
Erectile Dysfunction Linked To Smoking
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"
Ok, here's my bit. Longevity runs in my family. My grandfather (father's father) died at the age of 94. My father...his son.....died 6 months later at the age of 63. There was a 31 year age difference.
It was only after dad died that I realized why smokers die from heart attacks. It causes cholesterol to build up twice as fast as it normally would. And it's often the worst type of heart attack....blocked artery, in which the first attack kills you. My dad thought he had a mild heart attack after physical work that afternoon and told his wife he would go to the doctor the next morning to get checked out. Too late.
There is also the other type of attack in which the small veins feeding the heart muscle itself are constricted, causing part of the heart muscle to get damaged.
It has been said that it is more addictive than heroin, and dad agreed. He was down to 2 a day during the last 6 months, and had given it up a few times for 6 months each time.
The human mind rationalizes very very well, so the thing to do is to convince yourself consciously that it really is a seriously destructive thing.....and make your last experience of it a bad one. That way your subconscious associates bad feelings with it, rather than those good feelings.
Good luck, Hillbilly and AO.
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Its tough Ive quit many times only to creep back at a soky party or var.Giving p with grog is very hard.Ive been off a month now fingers crossed
Got to knock it on the head hillbilly, the good thing is your probably not addicted to the nicotine as you smoke so few, but it's still going to be a hard habit to break, means knockingh thew booze on the head for a while if you smoke whilst drinking, that one is the hardest if you carry on drinking.
Talking to a guy l know last week, he is devistated, has lung cancer, never had a sigarette in his life, go figure.
Yes, and men sometimes get breast cancer. Try telling THAT to your friends !
There are stories of people living to a ripe old age whilst still smoking, but these people are few and far between. They are totally outnumbered by the massive number of people dying from smoking-related diseases.....often, I have noticed, between the ages of 60-65.
What's really scary is developing emphysema. Or a heart attack which damages the heart muscle and then living the rest of your life partially disabled. Or the same thing from a stroke (which is common amongst older smokers....one of my friends had one at age 53).
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Non smokers die every day.
it had been 5 days without a smoke or a beer but i fucked it up and got rat arsed drunk while watching the Football last saturday ( The one played with an egg shaped ball ) and managed to smoke a packet, stopped again now and its day 3 im back at work so it should be easier to stay of both of them im on the nicotine gum as it helps with the cravings but last time i quit using these it was also bloody hard to quit the gum ,
why wait? that sounds like an addict talkingOriginally Posted by aging one
with so much health information out there, I cannot understand why people still smoke! it is like crossing the road without looking, you will get hit eventually
I know it is not a question of intelligence, but it really is incredibly stupid to smoke
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Smoking, like over eating and drinking will surely lead to totally avoidable health problems that are mostly subsidized by people with healthy lifestyles paying the price for those with no self-discipline. Stupid habit.
Smoking is a very difficult habit to break. You have to beat both the nicotine addiction and the smoking-association to things like drinking, morning coffee, stressful situations, etc.
You can beat the nicotine addiction easily enough with gums, patches, etc. In the short-term this ain't difficult. Beating your habit though for the long term certainly can be.
I quit 7 years ago now with the Allan Carr "Easy Way To Stop Smoking" book. I had tried unsuccessfully many times before to give up. The book helps you to de-program your mind from association to tobacco and nicotine. Worked well for me, and I have lent the book to friends that have also quit relatively easily as well.
Cant see why there is a correlation between smoking and drinking. It screws the taste of the beer, wine, whatever.
Kissing a girl/woman who smokes is also off putting. Her skin, hair and clothing (if wearing) stinks of that sweet sour smell. Bleccchhh!
Doesn't matter which end you kiss you're going to yet that "sweet sour smell". A no win situation.Originally Posted by grasshopper
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