Love Fluffy? 3 Convincing Reasons to Quit Smoking

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Xwxzmnhw of SC 1:16AM July 15, 2009

Hi, my name is George. I was a smoker for 23 years. I can't explain you how difficult is to stop it. I've tried a lot of alternatives to quit smoking, but the unique thing helped me was NicoNot: http://zerocigarettes.blogspot.com/
Really, now I'm feeling younger, healthier and my wife say she feels changes too. I'm a different man now and if I could help other people that have this problem, I'll give you a counsel: QUIT SMOKING!

George of AL 1:39PM March 15, 2009

I tried quitting several times before but I didn't really try until I was totally committed to it. If you aren't totally committed, you probably will not do it. I encourage everyone to try and maybe it will work, but for me and the rest of the people I know who have quit...you have to make it a complete life changing goal. I haven't smoked for 3 years and know I never will. I didn't realize how bad smokers smelled before I quit.

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dandan 11:18PM February 14, 2009

Get over yourself. As a 20 year smoker who finally quit 4 years ago, I think the reasons to quit in this article are pretty lame, but your arguments are ridiculous. The real criminal manipulators are the tobacco companies who admittedly intentionally coax teenagers, etc. into smoking their highly addictive, carcinogenic products. There is the real conspiracy. Plus, smoking actually really stinks and there is nothing you can say to dispute that. I hate walking through a gauntlet of fumes everytime I enter a building. I hated having a boss who 'secretly' smoked in the office so much that people thought I was still smoking because my hair and clothes reeked after a day of work. There is not one good reason for ANYONE to smoke except that you are a slave to your addiction. I loved smoking and it was horrible to quit, but I am glad that I did. If you want to smoke, go ahead and smoke somewhere where you won't hurt anyone else.

Dkaz of PA 3:25PM February 13, 2009

I'm not a smoker. But I am the daughter in-law of two wonderful, smart and loving people who have smoked far too long and probably have heard every reason in the book to quit.
What's being recommended isn't sustainable - paying people to quit isn't going to happen. The health argument sucks because it doesn't work. While I believe all the evidence about second and now third hand smoke being dangerous to humans and animals, the evidence as a message is not an effective way to get people to quit smoking. Has anyone ever asked actual smokers what would at least get their attention? From what I've seen and read, the answer is no. For groups that focus on smoking prevention and cessation, stop the guess work and going with what you think people need to hear. It's not about what you think they need. That's why the health argument is worthless.

FK of PA 11:33AM February 13, 2009

Every smoking ban, everywhere, has been rammed down the public's throat by falsely framing the issue as "freedom versus public health," and CONCEALING ANTI-SMOKER SCIENTIFIC FRAUD.
More than 50 studies have implicated human papillomaviruses as the cause of over 22% of non-small cell lung cancers. This equals over 30,000 cases, which is over ten times more lung cancers than the anti-smokers pretend are caused by secondhand smoke. Passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to this virus, so the anti-smokers' studies, because they are all based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires, are cynically DESIGNED to falsely blame passive smoking for all those extra lung cancers that are really caused by HPV. A significant proportion of lung cancers blamed on active smoking are actually caused by HPV as well. Obviously, there is a corrupt, politically-motivated coverup of a far larger cause of lung cancer than radon or secondhand smoke!
http://www.smokershistory.com/hpvlungc.htm
The anti-smokers lie that smoking bans cause "immediate, dramatic" declines in the number of heart attacks. In the Pueblo study, the death rates from acute myocardial infarction actually increased in the year after the ban, the same time they were boasting that the number of admissions declined! That suggests that people were dying because they weren’t admitted to hospitals when they should have been! And in the Indiana study, they exploited an anomalous spike in acute MIs during the "before" section of the study, to make the "after" part look better! And in the Helena study, the actual death rates from acute myocardial infarction (as opposed to hospital admissions which were the endpoint of the study) were nearly identical in 2001 (before the ban) and 2002 (the year of the ban), and reached their lowest point in 2003, the year after the smoking ban was repealed.
http://www.smokershistory.com/etsheart.html
If smoking or passive smoking were real causes of asthma, the rates of asthma would have gone DOWN. But the EPA's own report says, "Between 1980 and 1995, the percentage of children with asthma doubled, from 3.6 percent in 1980 to 7.5 percent in 1995." The graph on pdf page 65 boasts of declines in cotinine levels during this same period.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eermfile.nsf/vwAN/EE-0438A-01.pdf/$file/EE-0438A-01.pdf
And the CDC says, "Despite the plateau in asthma prevalence, ambulatory care use has continued to grow since 2000... Increased ambulatory care use for asthma has continued during an era when overall rate of ambulatory care use for children did not increase."
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad381.pdf
The government has no right to restrict peoples' liberty without a compelling justification. The anti-smokers have no such justification, so THEY COMMITTED SCIENTIFIC FRAUD TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC. This is a classic example of how the unscrupulous manipulators of public opinion have railroaded Americans into tyranny!

Carol Thompson of WI 4:15AM February 13, 2009

The 6 basic reasons to live. Living on planet Earth results in 100% morbidity...we all die of something. I could cross the street tomorrow and be squashed by a truck. I refuse to live in fear like the health nuts and hypochondriacs here in California. I've enjoyed smoking for 30 years, and not just cigs. LSD, PCP, Heroin, coke, Dead concerts, 3 somes, 4 somes and more somes. Young, Bowie, the Who...Lisa, Gloria, Sheila...Sky diving, sailing, SCUBA diving...2 heart attacks, 3 back surgerys, chemoth therapy for a year; I've lived life to its fullest everyday. If you fear death, you can't enjoy life and I love it. Therefore, I refuse to stop my enjoyment of life to satisfy the desires of the fearful. I am 47 years old and continue to party on. I've already experienced more at 47, than all of the slugs will if they live to 150. Go back to your culle de sac in the great middle. Change a diapper, beg your wife for lame sex, eat a veggie burger, but leave me alone. I don't want your pathetic life. I've got a party to attend now on my 25 footer. Maybe, if you're lucky, I'll croak tonight with a joint in my hand as my chick is bl*wing me.

Ed the head of CA 11:23PM February 12, 2009

NICE ADVERTISEMENT. There's only one way to quit and that is simply not to smoke. There's no such thing as a magic wand. Go camping in the middle of nowhere so that you can't get cigarettes for a week. Do anything you have to other than using the gums, patches or any other products that claim they can make you quit. They can't. They simply make someone else a nice profit and they suck more money out of your pocket. NO, GUMS, PATCHES and silly products like the ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE will NOT help you quit. You simply have to quit. If you can't do that then you will never quit. Put it this way, what are you going to do, use a patch your entire life? Chew nicotine gum forever? Nope. At some point you're going to have to "quit." Why suffer? Just get it over with. Don't whine or cry. Just DO IT!

Doug Y of NY 6:22PM February 12, 2009

I tried smoking during high school and never liked it. It wasn't until I was 18 and started playing poker and drinking beer that cigarettes became quite enjoyable. That year was 1981 and I smoked for another 7 years, finally quitting in August of 1988. I was smoking 2 packs a day of Kool's. This was when 50 cents or a dollar (can't remember) in the vending machine at work bought you 20 coffin nails. I loved smoking but at the same time I hated it. It got to the point that when I tried to quit, the urge to smoke was so strong that I would actually pull a half smoked butt out of "any" ash tray and light it up - NASTY! At that point I was determined that I was no longer going to be a drug addict. My nicotine addiction owned me and that's just not who I am. I'm the master of my own body and behavior. No cigarette was going to rule my brain. Once I realized that there was no easy solution, no magic formula or gum or patch, it became easy. You simply quit. All of you who say "It's just not that easy" are wrong. It doesn't get any easier. Leave the cigarettes alone for 2 full days and that's it, you're done. 20.5 years later do I still want a cigarette? Yes, I do. I would love to smoke. Have I cheated and had a smoke in the past 20 years? Yes, several times. It made me want to puke. Does the craving to smoke ever go away? Not on your life. It does get much easier to control. Being in a room with a smoker now just makes my throat hurt and makes my chest tighten up. Somewhere inside I still want to smoke, though. Don't trade one tobacco for another. Chewing tobacco and snuff cause the same cancers and even more. Look up Lichen Planus and see what snuff and chew will do to your teeth, gums, tongue and esophagus. Even if you don't contract cancer from smoking, emphysema "will" become your companion. Try breathing through a drinking straw. Emphysema is like that only you can't take the straw away to catch your breath. Just remember, there's no easy out. Quitting smoking is breaking a drug addiction and a habit. It has become part of your chemistry and part of your social persona. Get healthy and create the new you. Take control of yourself. Don't allow some silly drug to ruin your life. Your children and grandchildren want you around so don't deliberately end your own life early. Smoking is ultimately a selfish act. You will feel better physically, mentally, emotionally and you will smell less bad, or better, whichever the case may be. Just DO IT!

Doug Y of NY 5:56PM February 12, 2009