Well... SMOKING Is Back Big Time On Radar Screen... How Many Are Still

[ChiciB1]

DOING IT???

Hey, seemed like a good question to me. Yes, shouldn't smoke, but how's the pollution in Iraq????

[JDPriestly]

1. Smoking deaths outnumber Iraq deaths manyfold

Check out the website of the American Cancer Society. I posted the numbers, link and other information on DU last week.

[ChiciB1]

2. Thank You...

I was being facetious. My father and mother both smoked and I DO urge everyone I know to stop because it's a KILLER!

But I've also heard that there is some serious pollutants that everyone is inhaling in Iraq and I just bet when they come back, our soldiers are going to have to "prove it"!

Remember Agent Orange, and the first Gulf War with all the serious illnesses that they produced. And it WAS our weapons that produced the PROBLEM!

[gizmo1979]

3. You can beat me

I still smoke no good reason other than I'm weak and helpless against the evil weed.

[titoresque]

5. was outside

smoking....damn what an aweful habit.
I keep saying, I'll quit. And I have for awhile. Made a huge mistake after my 1st child was born and started back up again after three years. Quit again for second pregnancy, but not for much longer than 9 months.

terrible drug, just terrible...

[lonestarnot]

7. Hi titoresque!

Did you see your mug shot?

[titoresque]

11. no, OMG

I hope you didnt put a pic up for public display.......I never take
good pics! I always lurch at the last moment! LOL! besides........Im a CIA operative on super duper double secret mission.....shhhhhhhhh.

[lonestarnot]

12. Great pics check them out...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4333526&mesg_id=4333526

[titoresque]

15. posted over there

great pics! you did a splendid job dahling, just splendid! :)

[lonestarnot]

17. Well you are quite photogenic...and the signs were great weren't they?

[gizmo1979]

10. Yes it is

I firmly believe if you truly with every ounce of your soul want to quit you can.I just can't get in that frame of mind.There is always that little voice saying naw maybe tommorrow.

[JDPriestly]

19. Check out the American Cancer Society site.

Get help! You can stop! Keep trying!

My husband went cold turkey from two packs a day about 30 years ago, just before I became pregnant with our first child. To be 100% honest, quitting was made easier by the fact that he had a bad cold.

But the addiction still held him in its grasp. When our oldest daughter was about a year and a half, he was sitting in a lovely cafe in Paris chatting with a good friend. The friend offered him a cigarette, and my husband reached for it. But as he looked up at the open pack, he saw a big, black hearse proceeding slowly down the street behind his friend. My husband got the feeling that Providence was sending him a message: smoke or live. He chose life.

That experience turned him off to smoking forever. Watch what is going on around you. Signals about the dangers of smoking may not be the only ones you are missing. Addictions have a way of numbing us to life's lessons. I wish you a life of healthy growth. Dealing with pain and discomfort is just part of being alive. You'll feel very good about yourself and deservedly so once you lick your nicotine addiction.

[ChiciB1]

8. No Beating...

Have a sister who says when she's good and ready she'll stop. She's been smoking for 35 years I think. And she quit 2 times before, once for 2 years and then only 6 months.

I smoked a some slumber parties when younger and also when I drank beer and bowled, but haven't smoked since 1984. But then I can't say I ever smoked more than a pack a week at the most. Still it wasn't good, but it WAS easier for me to stop.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. One word. Antioxidants. nt.

[donco6]

6. (Guilt -ily unwrapping a piece of Nicorette)

Ok.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Don't believe it? Read this, it is simple, straightforward and true.

1: Toxicol Ind Health. 2002 Jun;18(5):215-24. Related Articles, Links


Pycnogenol in cigarette filters scavenges free radicals and reduces mutagenicity and toxicity of tobacco smoke in vivo.

Zhang D, Tao Y, Gao J, Zhang C, Wan S, Chen Y, Huang X, Sun X, Duan S, Schonlau F, Rohdewald P, Zhao B.

Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, 15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, PR China.

Despite large-scale anti-smoking campaigns throughout the world, the number of smokers remains high and cigarette smoking continues to represent a life-threatening health risk. Until a smoke-free society is achieved, reduction of cigarette smoke toxins may reduce the health burden. Current cigarette filter techniques are limited to the reduction of volatile tar constituents by dilution and by condensation on the filter surface. Vast quantities of harmful constituents, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heterocyclic (aromatic) amines, free radicals and reactive oxygen species, are inefficiently retained in the filter. We investigated whether neutralisation of free radicals in cigarette filters is feasible and accompanied by a reduction in smoke toxicity.

Addition of the bioflavonoid pine bark extract Pycnogenol to cigarette filters depleted free radicals in a dose dependent manner. This was paralleled by a reduction of toxicity and mutagenicity in rodent test models. In this model system, the acute toxicity of cigarette smoke was markedly reduced by up to 70% in rodents with 0.4 mg Pycnogenol in filters. Chronic exposure to cigarette smoke for 75 days revealed that Pycnogenol filters significantly reduced mutagenicity by up to 48% and decreased pathological changes in lung tissue.

PMID: 14653310

[titoresque]

13. geeeeez

thats about enough to make a person go out and smoke.....j/k
Thanks for the info. I have no good excuse. I have made rules for myself like: No smoking in the house...ever! I live in Az. I smoke outside whether it's 50 degrees or 120 degrees.
No smoking on the way to school with kids in car. I hate for them to smell like smoke. No smoking in the car with kids unless on long trip and they have asked "are we there yet?!" more than 20 times, or if I'm totally stressed out, and I roll all windows down....sometimes I think its safer for the children if I just smoke. :)
Let me see, no smoking right after I eat, or when I first wake up. In both cases I generally wait an hour.
Yeah......I should just quit already!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. Well.... if you cannot.... mebbe for now you could either check

www.pycnogenol.com or www.lipoic.com

[ChiciB1]

18. I Think You've Scared Them Pretty Good... Or is It Well??

Good probably... I just hate using incorrect grammar!

But you've got this info down pat....WOW!!! It scares ME and I don't smoke!

[lockdown]

16. It is a DISGUSTING habit

But,

I've got pennies in my pocket and I'm feeling no care
Gonna find all my answers with minimum delay
Gonna manage my time just like Johann Cruyff
If we do it together we've got meaning of life

But I just wanna smoke it
I just wanna smoke it
I just wanna smoke it...

there are worse things, life's too short. It's scary though, according to the most recent UK anti-smoking ads, if I keep smoking my knob is going to fall off. Bugger. :rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Quit a week ago

Pretty good timing, eh?

This is the 6th or 7th time I have quit and I think it's going to work this time.