Nicotine Kills

Socrates the Greek

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I quit in 1981 smoking cigarettes cold turkey, it was the most difficult time of my life.
If you smoke, quit cold turkey now it will prove that you care for your soul.
Your body is the house of your soul, why evict your soul from its rightful place????? , your body!
Warning: Photos on this page may be graphic and disturbing






The photo on the left shows a normal city dweller's lung. The black spots noted are carbon deposits caused by pollution.
The photo on the right belongs to an 80 year old non-smoke. It still appears pink and aerated.





But if you continue to smoke.....
The photo on the left is a smoker's lung with lung cancer. The white areas at the top part of the lung is cancer, while the blackened area that covers the rest of the lung are tar deposits.
The photo on the right is a lung with emphysema. Not only is the lung discolored, but it is out of shape causing breathing to be extremely difficult.


Cross-sectional photos
The photo above shows a cross-section of a normal lung. The surface of the cross-section looks smooth and the color is still normal.
However,
The cross-sectional lung photo above shows dilated airspaces indicating emphysema. There are also scarring from superimposed infections. Just imagine having to live with a part of yourself looking like that. Horrendous.
If you want to feel what its like to have emphysema, try taking a deep breath and hold it. Without letting out any air, take another deep breath. Hold that one too. One more time, take one more breath. Okay let it all out.
That second or third breath is what it feels like to breathe when you have advanced emphysema. Emphysema is a disease where you cannot exhale air. Everyone thinks that it is a disease where you cannot inhale but in fact it is the opposite. When you smoke you destroy the lungs elasticity by destroying the tissue that pulls your lung back together after using muscles that allow us to inhale air. So when it comes time to take your next breath it is that much more difficult, for your lungs could not get back to their original shape.
Imagine to live struggling each breath like those last two breaths. Unfortunately, millions of people don't have to imagine it, they live it daily. It is a truly miserable way to live and a slow painful way to die.
But its still not too late! The moment you quit smoking, your lungs begin repairing all the damages immediately. Your risks of lung cancers and other cancers drop significantly, even if the cells are already in a pre-cancerous state. Your risk of developing smoking related diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis also declines at once.

Reasons To Quit Smoking

Here's a list of 50 reasons for quitting smoking. Some are scientifically based, some a stretch. Which one is your reason for quitting smoking?

  • I'll have fewer wrinkles.
  • After the first year, I'll have saved enough for a Caribbean cruise.
  • I save myself the embarrassment of having bad breath.
  • After the second year, I can bring someone with me for a Caribbean cruise.
  • I'll still be around to see my grandchildren.
  • I won't have to worry about early impotence.
  • I won't need to eat at a smoking section anymore.
  • There are programs that can help me.
  • I no longer need to spend time on counseling.
  • I'll live longer and healthier.
  • I won't feel like a leper in public.
  • I won't have to worry about how smoking is ruining my health.
  • The average person tries to stop smoking at least four times before succeeding. I may be on No 2 or 3, but I am better than average.
  • I won't have to lie to my children to hide my smoking habit.
  • My fingers won't get frostbites when I go outside.
  • I'll be able to exercise more.
  • I'll soon have the same life expectancy as a nonsmoker.
  • My spouse won't get emphysema.
  • I'll cough less.
  • I'll be able to taste and smell food again.
  • My children will have fewer ear and respiratory infections.
  • My lipstick won't smudge.
  • I won't have to wonder if my date is bothered by cigarette smoke.
  • My teeth will be much whiter.
  • I won't waste time looking for a smoking area all the time.
  • No more wheezing.
  • I won't have to listen to sarcastic talk like how much I taste like an ashtray during a kiss.
  • There are other safer and more effective ways of maintaining my weight.
  • My plants won't turn brown.
  • My baby is so much safer with a at lower risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
  • My fingers won't turn yellow.
  • I have more pocket space.
  • My lungs won't look like burnt BBQ beef.
  • No more burning holes in my clothes.
  • My spouse will be less likely to develop heart disease or lung cancer.
  • I'll have to pull off the road only when I need gas.
  • My car won't reek of stale smoke.
  • I won't ever need to breathe oxygen through a nasal tube.
  • My house won't reek of stale smoke.
  • My unborn child is safer from fetal defects.
  • I won't reek of stale smoke on my clothes and hair.
  • I'll be able to play with the little ones without gasping.
  • I won't have to feel isolated or unaccepted anymore.
  • No more feeling like smoking on airplanes.
  • I'll have more energy to do all the things I want to do.
  • I'll save money on lighters and matches.
  • I'll make new friends who see me as who I am.
  • I'll be taking back full control of my life.
  • I'll be a good role model for my children and others who I care for.
  • I know that I can quit smoking for life if I want to and I have the ability to choose not to smoke.
 
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jimmoyer

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Good for you Socrates !!!



I quit July 12, 2006.

Hypnosis.
The hypnotist after snapping his fingers 3 times (we're all conditioned for that classic comic approach) and turning off the cheap New Age Music asked us to open our eyes and answer his question, "How long do you think you've been sitting there ?"

All of us thought 15 minutes.

It was in reality an hour and a half.
 

Praxius

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What? Quit?!

I just started smoking as a New Years Resolution in 2007, and now I'm told to quit?

What's the world coming to? Just started smoking for over a year now and it's now unhealthy for me.... frig, can't do anything anymore.
 

jimmoyer

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Praxius, you really don't want that as a lifetime habit.

There's a great commercial showing people trying to drive their car out of their driveway or drink a cup of coffee without smoking. It is totally how I felt about quitting.
I used to say I couldn't think without a smoke.

Now I don't think.
 

Socrates the Greek

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Good for you Socrates !!!

I quit July 12, 2006.

Hypnosis.
The hypnotist after snapping his fingers 3 times (we're all conditioned for that classic comic approach) and turning off the cheap New Age Music asked us to open our eyes and answer his question, "How long do you think you've been sitting there ?"

All of us thought 15 minutes.

It was in reality an hour and a half.

Thank you Jimmoyer, as you know the tobacco industry should be taken down, unfortunately they have diversified in the food sector the insurance sector and many more money making ventures which will make it very difficult to put them out of business. Reality is, that all governments around the globe have for many years played the silent game, “Governments we see nothing we know nothing just keep on giving us the huge revenue from cigarette sales and it doesn’t matter what happens to young children addicted at the age of 10 smoking for 30 - 40 years”.
 

Socrates the Greek

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What? Quit?!

I just started smoking as a New Years Resolution in 2007, and now I'm told to quit?

What's the world coming to? Just started smoking for over a year now and it's now unhealthy for me.... frig, can't do anything anymore.

Many stop cigs and start weed. :lol:
 

jimmoyer

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Socrates, I could cry at the harm this does.

I wish I did not smoke all those years.

Stamping this out by fiat ? I dunno. The greater conquest is our freedom to say no to it.
That's the battle. All the chains we bind our ownselves with is the true crusade.
 

Socrates the Greek

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Socrates, I could cry at the harm this does.

I wish I did not smoke all those years.

Stamping this out by fiat ? I dunno. The greater conquest is our freedom to say no to it.
That's the battle. All the chains we bind our ownselves with is the true crusade.

No kidding, we are an addictive bunch, something that feels adventures we want to embrace it at any cost. Total craziness.
 

lone wolf

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It hasn't killed me 'cuz I'm typing this. I started when it was cool - and started inhaling a year or so after that. For about thirty years, I smoked about pack a day. A year after I quit, the piper had to get paid. It was only because I wasn't smoking any more the cardiologist would even take me on - and really, it was only because I did the full arrest thing while being preped for an angiogram they had to do something. Smoking, years of cruddy trucker food and a lot of relative inactivity spelled out a 95% blockage. Seems kinds Star Trekkie to me they can do heart surgery through your crotch. That's balloon angioplasty (mostly done 'cuz he was already in there for the angiogram) Stupid me, I started smoking again a couple of years later. Peer pressure? Smokin' girlfriends? Cheap reservation smokes? Excuses.... Stupid me! I haven't had a smoke (tobacco) in over a year now - but the heart's an issue, I have no teeth and I've gained weight like crazy.
 

jimmoyer

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You know we rail away at this evil or that evil, and silently we're stalked by real killers everywhere. Addiction and disease kill more of us than Bush or Hitler or Stalin or Israel or Iran. My friend just had a quadruple bypass.

The buddhists say our heads drag our bodies around. True, right?

The brain wants to be fed and be damned what's good for the body. The tyrant between our eyes is an unruly child, undisciplined, slbbbery slobbery desires. And we laugh at mantras ? We're pulled by a wind, a sultry eyelash, a flash of hair, toil and trouble, boil and bubble.

Damn sticky keyboard.
 

Socrates the Greek

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It hasn't killed me 'cuz I'm typing this. I started when it was cool - and started inhaling a year or so after that. For about thirty years, I smoked about pack a day. A year after I quit, the piper had to get paid. It was only because I wasn't smoking any more the cardiologist would even take me on - and really, it was only because I did the full arrest thing while being preped for an angiogram they had to do something. Smoking, years of cruddy trucker food and a lot of relative inactivity spelled out a 95% blockage. Seems kinds Star Trekkie to me they can do heart surgery through your crotch. That's balloon angioplasty (mostly done 'cuz he was already in there for the angiogram) Stupid me, I started smoking again a couple of years later. Peer pressure? Smokin' girlfriends? Cheap reservation smokes? Excuses.... Stupid me! I haven't had a smoke (tobacco) in over a year now - but the heart's an issue, I have no teeth and I've gained weight like crazy.


Lone wolf, you are not stupid, the manufacturing of the cigarette the so called (the delivery devise by the Tobacco Industry)….. is designed as you know to take complete control of human logic and make anyone who smokes look bad, and believe that it calms nerves down, how logical is that?, to sacrifice the lungs in order for the nerves to be calm.
 

Socrates the Greek

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You know we rail away at this evil or that evil, and silently we're stalked by real killers everywhere. Addiction and disease kill more of us than Bush or Hitler or Stalin or Israel or Iran. My friend just had a quadruple bypass.

The buddhists say our heads drag our bodies around. True, right?

The brain wants to be fed and be damned what's good for the body. The tyrant between our eyes is an unruly child, undisciplined, slbbbery slobbery desires. And we laugh at mantras ? We're pulled by a wind, a sultry eyelash, a flash of hair, toil and trouble, boil and bubble.

Damn sticky keyboard.

Soooooo true Jimmoyer,
 

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Tobacco stocks pay great dividends and continually rise in price.
 

Socrates the Greek

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Tobacco stocks pay great dividends and continually rise in price.

Oh, never new that Walter so interesting .
The topic is about Cancerous lungs Walter, the moral dilemma here is, that as long as the Government keeps on collecting the huge taxation from Tobacco sales they will continue to play stupid while human beings will keep on falling like the brown leafs from the tree.
 

Socrates the Greek

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It has been said that nicotine in its refined form is the "deadliest" poison on the face of the earth.


And that works for the Tobacco industry and the Government 1M%
The lawyers for the Tobacco industry are the army who provide passage for the Tobacco industry. A court in California awarded $150M to smokers 3 years ego on a class action law suet and the Tobacco lawyers are working hard on the appeal process while no money has been paid out by the Tobacco giant Philip Morris.
 

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And that works for the Tobacco industry and the Government 1M%
The lawyers for the Tobacco industry are the army who provide passage for the Tobacco industry. A court in California awarded $150M to smokers 3 years ego on a class action law suet and the Tobacco lawyers are working hard on the appeal process while no money has been paid out by the Tobacco giant Philip Morris.

I would think that IMASCO is watching this case closely.
 

china

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Hi Socrates,
Thanks for a wonderful post .After smoking for 35 years I have stopped on 16 nov,07after realizing that smoking is the most stupid think one can do.