[kittygilchrist]

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

[redwitch]

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

[CFrance]

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.

[tainsley]

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

[Golfingnut]

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

[Lark7]

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.

[kittygilchrist]

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.

[asianthree]

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

[kittygilchrist]

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.

[KathieI]

My motivation came from watching my beautiful mother totally destroyed at the young age of 63, all from smoking... The cancer was so aggressive that she didn't stand a chance and lasted a short 3 months of torment, torturous pain, taking her from a beautiful, charming, professional, fun loving woman to a mass of tumors coming from all parts of her body. My only comment about her death has been that HITLER shouldn't have died this way. No one deserved it.

Thankfully, I smoked but was never addicted and had no problem quitting. The memories of her took many years to pass by where I could remember her as the beautiful woman again.

I'm sorry to be so blunt and maybe its TMI but I'm very passionate about this and would love to see everyone quit - although I do believe its your right if you want to, but don't do it around me.

[kittygilchrist]

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

[scrapple]

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!

[kittygilchrist]

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

[obxgal]

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

[Happinow]

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.