The biggest factor to quitting is to get enough will power to say "These [censored] things are going to kill me someday" ... and just get enough control over your brain to stop smoking. Yes, easier said than done, but that's what it ultimately takes.
Which Cigarette is Safest?
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Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
I agree, best cig is the unlit one.
My Dad was a strapping man, worked for Bell Telephone back in the day. A lineman, I watched him climb telephone poles as a kid. I also watched him smoke many, many Tareyton cigs. The "safe" ones with the charcoal filter.
Was right at 100 pounds when he passed from advanced lung cancer, and heart disease.
Still miss him. And I never smoked.
Makes no sense. We look for 1.00 oil, and then blow 8.00 on a legal drug induction machine that kills us slowly? No thanks. Cigs are purposely manufactured to hook you, make you crave, and convince you that there is a darn good reason to keep poisoning yourself.
I suggest a doctor, some Chantix, and cold turkey, no light cig is going to get it for a smoker.
Good luck on encouraging him to quit.
I agree, best cig is the unlit one.
My Dad was a strapping man, worked for Bell Telephone back in the day. A lineman, I watched him climb telephone poles as a kid. I also watched him smoke many, many Tareyton cigs. The "safe" ones with the charcoal filter.
Was right at 100 pounds when he passed from advanced lung cancer, and heart disease.
Still miss him. And I never smoked.
Makes no sense. We look for 1.00 oil, and then blow 8.00 on a legal drug induction machine that kills us slowly? No thanks. Cigs are purposely manufactured to hook you, make you crave, and convince you that there is a darn good reason to keep poisoning yourself.
I suggest a doctor, some Chantix, and cold turkey, no light cig is going to get it for a smoker.
Good luck on encouraging him to quit.
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Originally Posted by OVERKILL
This is like asking which cancer is the best. My wife and I both quit about 16 years ago when we found out we were having a child. Both cold turkey, no aides, his life was our motivation. I've got friends from work who have quit and gone back several times, using patches and the like. You need to want to quit; you need to NEED to quit. It has to be a conscious decision. It isn't going to be easy, but neither is dying from cancer and that's the alternative.
My Grandmother smokes and is 90 years old and have good health. So not every body gets cancer.
This is like asking which cancer is the best. My wife and I both quit about 16 years ago when we found out we were having a child. Both cold turkey, no aides, his life was our motivation. I've got friends from work who have quit and gone back several times, using patches and the like. You need to want to quit; you need to NEED to quit. It has to be a conscious decision. It isn't going to be easy, but neither is dying from cancer and that's the alternative.
My Grandmother smokes and is 90 years old and have good health. So not every body gets cancer.
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Originally Posted by OVERKILL
This is like asking which cancer is the best. My wife and I both quit about 16 years ago when we found out we were having a child. Both cold turkey, no aides, his life was our motivation. I've got friends from work who have quit and gone back several times, using patches and the like. You need to want to quit; you need to NEED to quit. It has to be a conscious decision. It isn't going to be easy, but neither is dying from cancer and that's the alternative.
My Grandmother smokes and is 90 years old and have good health. So not every body gets cancer.
There's always an exception. Both my grandfather's smoked, my mom's dad died in his 70's from lung cancer, gasping for air for several hours before passing. Lost 175lbs, couldn't walk, could barely talk. My dad's dad was a raging alcoholic who smoked like a chimney, survived 5 back-to-back heart attacks, breaking his neck from falling off a roof, pneumonia caused by putting a rib through his lung from falling down a set of cement stairs. Both those last two events were related to the raging alcoholic part. He passed away peacefully in his sleep at the hospital, no longer able to live at home because he had become angry and demented. He was 88.
That being said, I've lost two close friends to lung cancer, both of them smoked heavily. Both were in their 70's. Watching what it does to somebody, how it slowly, painfully suffocates them, their body writhing in excruciating agony, screaming for oxygen as its lungs are reduced to deflated balloons, filling with cancerous death leaving no room for air. I wouldn't wish that fate on anybody. Yet many knowingly choose it and continue to partake.
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
This is like asking which cancer is the best. My wife and I both quit about 16 years ago when we found out we were having a child. Both cold turkey, no aides, his life was our motivation. I've got friends from work who have quit and gone back several times, using patches and the like. You need to want to quit; you need to NEED to quit. It has to be a conscious decision. It isn't going to be easy, but neither is dying from cancer and that's the alternative.
My Grandmother smokes and is 90 years old and have good health. So not every body gets cancer.
There's always an exception. Both my grandfather's smoked, my mom's dad died in his 70's from lung cancer, gasping for air for several hours before passing. Lost 175lbs, couldn't walk, could barely talk. My dad's dad was a raging alcoholic who smoked like a chimney, survived 5 back-to-back heart attacks, breaking his neck from falling off a roof, pneumonia caused by putting a rib through his lung from falling down a set of cement stairs. Both those last two events were related to the raging alcoholic part. He passed away peacefully in his sleep at the hospital, no longer able to live at home because he had become angry and demented. He was 88.
That being said, I've lost two close friends to lung cancer, both of them smoked heavily. Both were in their 70's. Watching what it does to somebody, how it slowly, painfully suffocates them, their body writhing in excruciating agony, screaming for oxygen as its lungs are reduced to deflated balloons, filling with cancerous death leaving no room for air. I wouldn't wish that fate on anybody. Yet many knowingly choose it and continue to partake.
A guy I've known since childhood has smoked since his teens. He's 51 now, has had treatment for lung cancer, still has it, and continues to smoke. He looks much older then he is. He says that he knows it's killing him, but claims he can't quit. I guess he'll quit eventually, one way or another.
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