Reasons to quit smoking
 

Death comes 10 years sooner...
this is to help smokers face reality..
wanna add to the thread?

You stink (literally). (And I still smoke!)

I think that all smokers realize the chances they are taking with their health. I can't imagine that anyone who watches television hasn't run across all the reasons one should not smoke. That said, it is a terrible addiction and so hard to break--I know from experience, having quit four times before it finally stuck.

I started on a bet in college. I won the bet but ironically, I lost. My best wishes and prayers for anyone struggling with overcoming this addiction.

Quitting smoking is lifting a hundred-pound weight off your back.

Smelly clothes, anxiety, Emphysema, cancer, departing The Villages sooner rather than later!

Not only does it take away years of life, It starts by removing quality of life years before they kill you.

I must admit that I did not quit smoking for health concerns; rather, 14 years ago, I quit because I was just tired of the smell. It is one of the more difficult things I have done.

Smoking Effects Pictures Slideshow: How Smoking Affects Your Looks and Life on MedicineNet.com

slideshow of twin smokers and nonsmokers, effect of smoking on facial skin, and who knew it has an effect on collagen that causes sagging all over the body.

i quit in 1988 but i still understand why some can't quit

Lung Cancer Pictures
Excellent video of lung and arterial damage, click on item 1.

Motivation to change can come from seeing the truth in a graphic way.

Thanks Kathie,
Both my parents died early after years of smoking, one from stroke, the other from heart failure. Mother said "Smoking doesn't hurt you, that research is people trying to make a living". She quit after her heart stopped and she had a triple bypass.

Article on smoking rots the brain...BBC News - Smoking 'rots' brain, says King's College study
Increased risk of dementia..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11622484

There are so many health reasons to quit, we know them all and know the results of not quitting. Then there is the cost of cigarettes. Who really can afford to burn (I honestly don't know what a ppd is anymore, just the $6.99 I see at gas stations). Then there's the smell, and the shame. For me, I wanted to have control over at least some portion of my life. After >30 years of a ppd habit, and 4 quits, I needed to finally get the monkey off my back. And that was 10/05/2007. I know if I ever have one, I'll be right back where I started, so, one day at a time! Good luck everyone!

One, the first one, is the only one you have to resist.
Besides that, here's the effect of one on lungs.


unable to post link...it's youtube.com/watch?v=5BpxwRGVGdc

I as a smoker do not need a lot of "do gooders" once again starting a thread on the evils of smoking.

Cancer diagnosis
 

Just today, my 72 year old mother in law was diagnosed with breast cancer. She smokes like a chimney, looks like a hundred miles of bad road and you would swear she was 90, although I've seen many, many 90 year olds look great! Hubby has tried for years to talk her out of smoking and her response was " let me die the way I want to." So, I don't have much sympathy for her. She has chosen her path.

I agree...anyone who smokes, know the "potential" consequences of those actions. No one needs a reminder from....oh well, nevermind.

I'm thinking that a lot of those same people, would be better served concentrating on the "evils" of obesity....and learning to push that plate away a little sooner.


Obesity VS. Smoking (poke here)


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As a graduate of master's program in 2001 with a course in management of change, I wanted this thread to offer the graphic truth to those/we who would prefer to see reality rather than to stay in denial.
K.
ps if you want to post another thread opposing people wanting to quit, or nobody needs to hear this, or obesity is worse, please go ahead. this thread might not be the best place for your comments...this is a support thread, and undermining of good intention is not appropriate.

50
 

My best friend is my doctor. He recently told me, the good lord will give you the first 50 years, the second 50 years, you have to work for it.

Just got back from the gym, because at my age it takes a lot of work, to keep in shape!

thank you! I feel most alive after a swim, when the heart and lungs are pumping!

Reasons to quit:
My son has his late grandmother's initials tattooed on his arm. Her non-smoking siblings are alive and well...he'd far prefer her arms around him than her initials in her memory.
I'd like my arms around my grandchildren when they come, for as long as that is possible.

I quit 16 hours ago. I'm doing good to myself. Nothing to do with you.

Feel this hug.

Prayers too.

Me too. It is very hard.

Oh well, nevermind quitting? I am doing this for myself, not reminding anybody, but simply putting the facts undeniably in front of my eyes and hoping for support. Your assumptions are incorrect, and your compassion is the opposite of support, which is what this thread is about. Why you bothered to post only you can examine in yourself. You irritated my effort, but I am determined.

I would say I love you Grace, but everyone's first words about you are "I love her", so I'm in line shouting out for you. thanks...

Ontrack, I'm not obese. I'm quitting smoking. Can you think of a reason you can help me with....I need all the worst news I can get about it. Smokers are in denial. support???

http://http://www.journalnow.com/bus...a4bcf6878.html

Graphic images make the destruction undeniably real. May I say gently to those who think everyone knows, so why put any new thing out there, that addicts don't embrace the reality, they/we deny it. Putting the destructive images on the package is coming and already in place in UK, because graphics in your face results on smoking have more impact than animations and lengthy research articles have for most of us, even scholars.
I'm ready for any support, your story, can read in depth text or graphics. I ask you please not to post opposing or confronting my effort.
Kitty

thanks, Dee. Yes, I stank until 8 a.m. yesterday. I care about you...but that's not about smoking. Very nice to meet you.
Kitty

Kitty this may sound overly simplistic yet it has worked for me (quite some time ago) and others who have used it. Just keep reminding yourself "I am not a smoker", "I don't smoke" and be absolute in that saying. Soon you will believe it and act accordingly, works for other habits as well. No use in filling your head with all the evils, etc. just inscribe this on your mind; "I don't smoke".

yes! that's what I want to hear...real life reasons to quit.
thanks....
Kitty

Mainlander, Your suggestion is welcome, most welcome. I had that mindset six months ago, but tobacco was a salve for extreme situational anxiety.
Perhaps you are a professional? hypnotist? I need that conscious mental focus you suggest, and I'll meditate to make it deeper in the psyche.
thank you for a free consult,
Kitty

thanks RRman, I'm starting to swim and it feels really good to huff and puff and have sore muscles. you go guy!

oh yeah. needed that....

I'm quitting no matter who says what. I'm out here because it is a strategy to quit to embarrass myself if I don't. Several people posted hostile comments on this thread based on erroneous assumptions about my motivation or about how one quits. For you, I hope you will examine your hearts for the need to derail my genuine effort.
Your posts against providing support were a challenge. I am rising above that.
Kitty

A comment in the original post about it being you quitting, would probably have mitigated the impression of it being open season to dump on smokers. :shrug:

Good luck. :thumbup:

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In light of new information, my previous post [above] was inappropriate.

You asked for reasons.
 

Because I have stood by the coffins of three people this last two years that our family DEARLY loved who died from lung cancer and who smoked.

Two dear folks on this forum died too probably from complications from smoking.

You asked. I am not judgmental about this and I think the older we are the harder it is and folks may need more than just will power. Perhaps a medical doctor and counseling.

I am wishing you strength, Kitty.

You're my friend, Mike. 24 hours now. woohoo!

It is never open season unless your gun is a loose cannon.