Smoking is bad....UPDATE

[jennielynn1970]

Please, blue, quit smoking now. I have seen too many people die untimely and painful deaths from a result of smoking.

Do you really think it sounds like he cares to stop smoking?

[blue]

Do you really think it sounds like he cares to stop smoking?

I do care, I understand firsthand how addictive it is. Any other comments?

[DJFyrewolf36]

Smoking has a death grip on some people. I've seen first hand how hard quitting can be.

[Grace]

I do care, I understand firsthand how addictive it is. Any other comments?

I smoked for more years than I care to remember.

Then 10 years ago I got pneumonia. That was the best day of my life. I quit smoking, cold turkey. I was so sick I didn't even miss the cigs for about 5 days. By then I was past the worst of the cravings.

For the next year I thought about them a lot - but never gave in. Nowadays I truly don't even think about having one. I now know how I smelled when smoking - my clothes, the house, yuck.

My only advice - if you have a friend with pneumonia spend lots of time with him/her. Try to get really sick - that ought to help.

[blue]

Smoking has a death grip on some people. I've seen first hand how hard quitting can be.

I worked with a guy who quit not only smoking but mainlining heroin, he said heroin was easier to kick

I smoked for more years than I care to remember.

Then 10 years ago I got pneumonia. That was the best day of my life. I quit smoking, cold turkey. I was so sick I didn't even miss the cigs for about 5 days. By then I was past the worst of the cravings.

For the next year I thought about them a lot - but never gave in. Nowadays I truly don't even think about having one. I now know how I smelled when smoking - my clothes, the house, yuck.

My only advice - if you have a friend with pneumonia spend lots of time with him/her. Try to get really sick - that ought to help.

Before I started smoking I had bronchitus (sp) a number of years in a row and pneumonia once. Im not going to credit smoking for not having a reoccurence of either.

[Catty1]

I posted this link to a story on Paul Newman in General, but just the link. Some PTrs hoped he had a peaceful passing. I had a friend die of lung cancer...trouble is, it doesn't stay just in your lungs.

The priest at the church I go to talked about a course he went to years ago, where everyone there (all clergy) aimed to become totally willing to do anything that God wanted. Greg [our priest] was ready to be a missionary in Antartica, anything hard and drudging like that. But he kept getting the thought "I should stop smoking."

He REFUSED, telling God that. He had a family, and also a family history of male heart and other conditions. He lost a brother who was 52 years of age. He had every reason to quit.

His advice now to people who don't want to quit is to pray for the willingness.

Pray for the willingness.

One day, he was driving somewhere, opened the car window and threw his cigarettes out. That was it. The willingness and readiness arrived.

So pray for it please, friends.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429177,00.html

It’s been reported that he [Newman] quit smoking some 30 years ago.

But although stopping does help curb damage to your lungs as the years pass, the chance of getting lung cancer is never completely gone.

“The risk continues for at least 10 more years even after you’ve quit,” Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, told FOXNews.com.

“Once lungs are damaged they don’t grow back,” he said. “It’s like brain tissue — once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.”

“It’s a horrible way to go,” said Dr. Evan Sorett, a pulmonologist and director of critical care at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City. “People have to be put on morphine, they are gasping to breathe. It’s a terrible death.”

[blue]

The day I go back to Church will likely be the day I quit.

[Catty1]

The day I go back to Church will likely be the day I quit.

Now THERE'S a plan.

You can always church shop and see where you are comfy.

I used a spiritual recovery program for alcohol and junk food...the idea being the booze and junk were my gods already, and really mean ones who had the ultimate control. Had to seriously trade them in on a Higher Power that wouldn't do the same damage.

{{{hugs}}}

[Edwina's Secretary]

The day I go back to Church will likely be the day I quit.

Oh, I think you should continue to smoke. It is your God given constitutional right to do so!