Infiniti: CHOKE on this!

Let me light up a cigarette before I read the article. :P

The sad part is that smokers (myself included) KNOW that cigarettes have
very dire consequences on ones health. Creating yet another study
proving that won't help. Educating adolescents is the only solution to
smoking, because they are the most vulnerable to peer pressure and other
influences. That seems to be the reason behind this study, and I hope it
works, because not starting to smoke is so much easier than trying to quit.

I think I tried 10 times to quit, including cold turkey, the patch and
the chewing gum and nothing worked. The only thing I found reduced the
number of cigarettes I smoked was keeping myself busy. My record was 3
cigarettes in one day, and that was because I had to completely
reassemble my old Yamaha RZ350 before a trip (I had the engine, carbs,
front end, swing arm and brakes rebuilt, and needed to put everything
back together).

Cosmin


Philip wrote: 

Hope peer pressure does not lead to teenage girls leaving lipstick marks on
the exhaust pipe of their VW Cabriolet TDI's.
--
~Philip.


Cosmin N. wrote: 

In article <3KVCd.1321$%news.atl.earthlink.net>,
"Philip" <net> wrote:
 



"The study was conducted in a garage in a small, Italian mountain town"

Another unbiased report brought to you by Tobacco Control.

Now I got a tell ya., I don't smoke, but these so called reports brought
to you by Tobacco Control and a bunch more are so obvious that it makes
one laugh.
--

com wrote: 


Coming up next...

Terrorism, wars, whacko jacko, the Bush'er, the folks
at Enron, and Martha Stewart... ALL caused by tobacco.

"Ken Weitzel" <ca> wrote in message
news:nFXCd.717302$%.. 

ROFL!

Natalie, never-a-smoker

"Cosmin N." <com> wrote in message
news:com... 

I used to think smokers who couldn't quit were just copping out. That was
until I worked in an OB/Gyn clinic! Those women would be terrified that
their babies would be affected, but were able to eat right, exercise, and
everything we told them they needed to do, but often could *not* stop
smoking. It was then that I realized what a powerful addiction cigarette
smoking is - wow!

Natalie 

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:27:57 -0500, "Wickeddoll®"
<com> wrote:
 

Sorry to hear that. I tried filters, patches, training programs, but
none worked for me. One day, it came down to that I couldn't afford
college for my wife, and my 3 pack/day habit. I said I had to quit
and I did. I promised myself I would start back up when I could
afford it, but that was 10+ years ago. Now with a mortgage and a
child, I"m guessing I'll have to remain smoke-free, but I do enjoy the
smell now and then.

Everyone who says they can't just doesn't want to.

imho,

tom @ www.ChopURL.com




 

<com> wrote in message
news:com... 

I think it's a lot like other addictions, such as food - some people haven't
been able to lose weight by any methods, which is tougher because you don't
need cigarettes to survive (just the opposite, of course), but you need food
to live. I saw a lady on a documentary who had dropped well over 200 pounds.
She began to go insane; not from temptation, but because her body reacted as
though it were starving! She became psychotic and very ill. She ended up
gaining the weight back, and in doing so, regained her sanity. Isn't that
nuts?! For smokers, they see others lighting up, which is even more powerful
than an obese person walking by a restaurant and resisting the temptation to
chow down. Personally, I usually was slightly overweight, but not morbidly
so. Then my blood pressure went up, which woke me up to the reality that my
heart was being affected. I decided I'd rather not be a sick old lady some
day (I'm now 46), so I had to drop the weight and get in shape. I exercise
no less than 30 minutes every single day, and have never regretted it.

By the way, the bargain that you made for your body should be reneged.
Please believe me when I say you'll be so much more healthy without
cigarettes. What people don't realize is that while lung cancer is
relatively rare (I've only seen a handful of cases in 28 years), smoking does
a lot of damage in other ways, such as COPD (emphysema - folks on home oxygen
because their lungs have shriveled and hardened to the point of no
elasticity), not to mention heart attacks and strokes. Plus they're very
expensive! My mother-in-law, a Nazi death camp survivor smokes (I can't say
I blame her after what she went through), and while we lived in New Hampshire
(She lives in Massachusetts) she'd ask if I'd buy her cigarettes either in NH
(They're quite a bit cheaper there) or at Westover AFB in Chicopee, MA. I
told her that while I know she won't stop smoking because I refuse to buy
them for her, I could not in good conscience do that for her, because that
would be like handing a syringe to a heroin addict. I can't be a party to
her slow suicide. My husband used to get them for her, and I didn't chastise
him for it, because I knew he just wanted to do what he can to help his mom
be content. I just couldn't do it myself, and she (thankfully) understands
that. But she's so awesome anyway, she'd naturally not cop an attitude. The
woman's incredible, and I wish she could stop so we could have her on this
planet longer.

Natalie, former food junkie - or is that junk-food junkie? ;-)