The Littlest Victims of Addiction: Use Chantix to Stop Smoking for your Children
Author: Brian Welsch
As you stand in line at the pharmacy picking up the prescription for ADD medication for your eight-year old child, your mind wanders back to the conversation you had with his doctor.
“Did Johnny have recurring ear infections as a child?”
“Yes”
“Did he have respiratory infections as well?”
“Yes”
“Ma’am, does anyone in your household smoke?”
“I do, why? Is that somehow related?”
“Unfortunately, ma’am, studies have shown a connection between secondhand smoke and all of these issues”
Too stunned to really hear much more of the conversation, you walk out of that office holding a prescription for your now-hyperactive son wondering if you are responsible for his issues.
Don’t let this happen to you! Become educated to the hazardous effects of secondhand smoke on children, then stop smoking before the little one in your house becomes nicotine’s latest little victim.
The Effects of Cigarette Smoke on Children:
One of the most frequently affected areas in the bodies of children whose parents smoke is the lungs. Sadly, these children are more prone to everything from sinus infections to much more serious chronic respiratory problems. Moreover, these children are more prone to bronchitis and even pneumonia. So, if you won’t use a cure like Chantix to stop smoking for yourself, then do it for your little one’s respiratory health.
Secondhand smoke doesn’t just affect their little lungs. It has also been connected to chronic ear infections. For those of us who have gone through endless sleepless nights with a crying child, multiple rounds of antibiotics, steroids and tubes, ear infections are the stuff of nightmares. All children are susceptible to ear infections in the first eighteen months, but those who breathe in secondhand hand have an even greater risk of chronic ear infections, which may lead to hearing loss. To stop smoking is tough, but drugs like Chantix do help considerably.
Finally, children of smokers, particularly mothers who smoked while pregnant have a much greater likelihood of experiencing a non-verbal learning disability like hyperactivity. If not than, then a potential learning disability connected to the same exposure to smoke. If you have children, or want to have children consider the risks of secondhand smoke. For their sake, if not yours, talk to your doctor about medication, for example Chantix and stop smoking before it is their health or their brain that suffers.
Chantix, a stop smoking aid from Pfizer, was recently approved by the FDA and may well be the wonder drug chronic smokers need to quit. It acts on the same areas in the brain as nicotine by provide similar stimuli. The effect of this is to reduce the horrid withdrawal symptoms. It also blocks nicotine, should the smoker start back to old habits. Isn’t it time to ask yourself whether you would rather stand in a pharmacy for a prescription for hyperactivity medication or stand there for a stop smoking aid like Chantix potentially preventing such health and educational risks for your son or daughter?
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Dodgy Gear?
Dodgy Gear
Three men are sitting in a room smoking dope. After a few spliffs they run out of gear.
One of the men stands up and says, ‘Look, we’ve got loads more tobacco, I’ll just nip into the kitchen and make one of my speciality spliffs.’
Off he goes into the kitchen where he takes some cumin, turmeric, Cardamom seeds and a couple of other spices from the spice rack, grinds them up and rolls them into a spliff. On his return he hands it to one of his smoking partners who lights it and takes a long drag. Within seconds he passes out.
Ten minutes go by and he’s still out cold, so they decide to take him to hospital.
On arrival he is wheeled into intensive care. The doctor returns to his friends and asks, ‘So what was he doing then? Cannabis?’
‘Well sort of’, replies one of the guys, ‘But we ran out of gear, so I made a home-made spliff.’
‘Oh’ replies the doctor, ‘so what did you put in it?’
‘Um, a bit of cumin, some turmeric and a couple of other spices.’
The doctor sighs, ‘Well that explains it.’
‘Why, what’s wrong with him?’ demands one of the men.
The doctor replies, ‘He’s in a korma.’
Pass the dutchie dude that is wicked!!
Replacement for Cardamom in Chicken Shawarma?
I finally have found all the ingredients I need to make This recipe… except cardamom because it’s really too expensive for me right now. I’m trying to decide if I should just leave it out or find something to replace it with. The other spices are as follows:
1 tablespoon ground coriander
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1 tablespoon ground cardamom (need a replacement for)
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 tablespoon grill seasoning, recommended
Any ideas?
I don’t have time to order anything on line… I’ve got Tahini and Greek Yogart that go bad kind of fast. I need to make the stuff tonight. I think I might just leave it out. It’s good to know about those sites though, I’ll use them in the future!
There really isn’t a good replacement for Cardamom, however, that being said, go to this website: http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeyscardamom.html . Penzey’s is a great herb and spice store that does mail order as well. They have Ground Guatemalan Cardamom in a 1.2 oz. 1/4 cup jar for only $3.49. That’s pretty reasonable. Good luck!
what is this one about ? another one from my travels…?
sky color of lead
sun just departed
new moon but a crescent scratch
chorus of muezzins blesses the sun,
and welcomes the moon,
echoes off the sea, pleading song
of ages past… reverberating,
echo of faith, words eternal
stones in the garden…
dead streets resurrected by
poetry recited by minarets…
eyelids of thousand shop shutters
lifting to gaze at the moon
and welcome passers by…
coffee touched with cardamom,
tea, strong and sweet as a kiss
fresh dates, pearls of desert palms
incense burners conjure whirling
dervishes of fragrant smoke,
gossamer of rose and sandalwood
dancing in night air…
children laughing…
a celebration of spirit,
I breath in life and remind myself
it all will be extinguished by sunrise
only to be born again,
tomorrow…
rhythm of life reversed
if only for a short time…
EDIT, thank you Annabella, yes, ancient destert world, but not the countries you mentioned. And, tell me what is it about ? surely you know. I livd there for many years… Thank tou for your kind words, shukran…
Iran?
Syria?
Egypt?
?
I am sensitive to the network of these words: stones, garden, coffee, cardamom, tea, fresh dates, pearls, palms, incense burners, rose, sandalwood.
They build up the landscape of a very ancient world, which to me is the heart of our world.
Thank you! Nice to read this where I am, in the morning during a storm.
Edit: well, I had not read it as a specific situation, and I really concentrated on the above words when I first went through it. Now, I suppose that there are other images that could evoke something else, such as the “dervishes of fragrant smoke”. Is it about smoking from a narghile? (the spell check does not know this one, so I am taking a guess). I hope you tell us which country it is. Have to go now!