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Post by ♫anna♫ on May 19, 2013 10:51:11 GMT
My father in law had a leg amputated a number of years ago! He didn't heed his doctor's warning to stop smoking! Smoking restricts the blood circulation especially in the feet and legs, etc.. A dear forum friend has described some disturbing symptoms to me so I'm posting this thread. This article and video are very disturbing so I'll only post the link: theinspirationroom.com/daily/2006/quit-smoking/
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Post by peterl on May 19, 2013 11:25:23 GMT
i have never ben able to uderstand the pleasure of smoking
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Post by Hunny on May 19, 2013 13:57:18 GMT
Smokers don't experience pleasure, they experience relief from withdrawal symptoms when they dose. Nicotine is an addictive drug, and that's all it is.
It isn't "pleasure". It isn't a hobby. It's drug addiction -a disgusting sickness. -with the wheezing and coughing and stinking and the financial drain, both from buying them and from getting sick more often. Oh, and the oh-so-attractive excuse-making addicts do, which I find more obnoxious than them relieving themselves of phlegm.
As for the many lovely diseases it causes, oh yes, there is more than just cancer to worry about. Emphysema (loss of the lungs' elasticity and so ability to take a normal breath) happens to every single person who smokes, for example. It's a progressive and irreversible ailment, the longer you smoke, the worse it gets. My mother's emphysema led to bronchitis and multiple pneumonias (those kill old people), and then she went senile from not getting enough oxygen to her brain and lived in a diaper on oxygen, and then she died finally of COPD (a disease which causes the brain to 'forget' how to get rid of carbon dioxide).
So if you feel you're "getting away with it" now, just keep in mind: you will age.
I think it's pretty clear smoking needs to be outlawed. It has no redeeming qualities at all, and by not outlawing it we're letting children do it. The only people who'd disagree with me are addicts and the drug pushers that sell them.
Just for the record, I smoked heavily for 20 years myself, and then quit, and I wish I'd done it sooner, and it was really hard. But I didn't want to end up like my Mom, so I got it done.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2013 0:22:35 GMT
I am glad i do not smoke. Yuck!
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Post by sadie1263 on May 21, 2013 0:26:58 GMT
When I was probably 14....I had a friend that wanted me to try smoking......I took a huge drag off the cigarette and choked and gagged and wheezed and thought I would never breathe again.........I looked at them and they said....."Oh...you'll get used to that"......my reply was.....why the hell would I want to try???
Never even liked kissing anyone that smoked.......seemed like what it would be like to lick an ashtray......bleck
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Post by mikemarshall on May 21, 2013 22:33:36 GMT
Leaving aside for the immediate present the whole question of the validity of causality and causation, there are many myths concerning smoking.
For instance, I recall as a child hearing that it would stunt my growth.
As I am 6ft 4 tall and my wife is 5ft 11 and we are both smokers that particular myth is clearly false!
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♫anna♫
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Post by ♫anna♫ on May 24, 2013 18:52:27 GMT
I fell in with the wrong crowd in my teens and they were all smokers and I started too! At the peak of my addiction I was smoking 50 cigarettes a day. Then I started scaling down and cleaning up my life! I read a book on fasting and how fasting cleanses the body and after fasting every Friday for a while I went on a 7 day total fast - nothing but water! It wasn't really my intention to kill the nicotine habit, but that was one of the results. After the fast I could never get started smoking again. In my dreams I sometimes smoke, but I'm always relieved when I wake up and realize that it was just a dream!
BTW ex smokers are the most militant anti-smokers! A nicotine addiction will leave those nicotine receptors in your brain for life and the net result is usually being less tolerant about smoking, if you successfully quit.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2013 6:28:22 GMT
I fell in with the wrong crowd in my teens and they were all smokers and I started too! At the peak of my addiction I was smoking 50 cigarettes a day. Then I started scaling down and cleaning up my life! I read a book on fasting and how fasting cleanses the body and after fasting every Friday for a while I went on a 7 day total fast - nothing but water! It wasn't really my intention to kill the nicotine habit, but that was one of the results. After the fast I could never get started smoking again. In my dreams I sometimes smoke, but I'm always relieved when I wake up and realize that it was just a dream!
BTW ex smokers are the most militant anti-smokers! A nicotine addiction will leave those nicotine receptors in your brain for life and the net result is usually being less tolerant about smoking, if you successfully quit. Well done on quitting Anna !
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