Stop Smoking: is it Really Worth it to Stop Smoking?
Author: Sig Kabai
You have been thinking that it’s time to quit smoking. But maybe you’ve been thinking that its time to quit smoking ever since you started and you are still smoking. You know that the health benefits of quitting are incredible. Still, you are smoking a cigarette or thinking of smoking one right now. Have you examined your reasons for not quitting? Maybe you think you can’t handle the withdrawal symptoms.
Try looking at it this way: Smoking cigarettes is like pointing a gun at your head. The gun won’t go off until ten or twenty years have passed. The thing is that the gun will go off eventually. How many years have you been smoking? Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, forty? However long it’s been, the time to quit smoking is now. Really, it was yesterday, but now will have to do. Put that gun down. Stop embarrassing yourself in public. When nonsmokers see someone smoking, they make judgments about it. Stop giving them a reason to judge you.
Not only is there an increasing social stigma attached to smokers, but the health benefits of quitting are endless. Do it now. Don’t keep putting it off. You know that your body can’t handle smoking without taxing years off of your life. If the financial cost hasn’t caused you to stop smoking, then quit for the sake of the health benefits from quitting.
No one thinks that it is easy to stop smoking, but it is worth it to quit smoking and quit committing slow and painful suicide.
• If you stop smoking, you will also eliminate over four thousand different poisonous chemicals from your body.
• If you quit smoking, you will be able to eat comfortably in any restaurant whether they allow smoking or not. You will also not have to wait for a seat in the smoking section if the state or country you are in allows for smoking in public eateries.
• If you stop smoking, you will be able to save a percentage of your income. You can put the money that you have been spending on smoking into a jar or a savings account. At the end of a year, you will probably have enough money to make a very nice purchase or go on vacation.
• If you quit smoking, you will not repel nonsmokers who see you smoking or smell the smoke on your clothes and skin. Smoking is such a stigmatized habit now that you will surely see a difference in the way that the world interacts with you if you stop smoking.
• If you’ve been smoking for many years, imagine what you have been missing out on in fragrances and foods. Maybe you don’t really know what different spices taste like because your taste buds and sense of smell are overloaded with the many different poisons that are in tobacco products. If you stop smoking, you will find out what fragrances you have been missing out on.
The health benefits of quitting are important. The social and financial benefits are also important. Quitting is important, but it is not easy. You will not only face the psychological struggle when you quit smoking. You will also face some physical challenges. Some of these common physical and psychological challenges are listed below.
• When you stop smoking, you might find yourself feeling depressed.
• When you quit smoking, you might find that you are struggling with insomnia or changes in your sleep patterns.
• You might find that you are cranky, frustrated or irritable when you stop smoking.
• You might find that your appetite is greatly increased, and this could lead to some weight gain when you quit smoking.
If you really think that you cannot handle the physical and psychological challenges, there are various methods that people have found to be very helpful when it was time to quit smoking. Research a bit on the new and powerful methods to stop smoking.
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About the Author
Bio: Sig Kabai researches the best ways to stop smoking. He has found a powerful and effective way to stop smoking that is stress free and easy to implement. For more information visit:http://endthehabitnow.com
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About how much tar builds up in human lungs after 1 year of smoking?
I’m doing a presentation on smoking and I’m gonna put molasses in a jar to represent tar from human lungs after smoking. Please provide sources if possible.
1 year’s worth of tar in the lungs
Here’s the amount of tar a pack-a-day smoker consumes every year. Some tar gets exhaled (one reason for bad breath).Some gets coughed up (gross). The rest stays in your lungs (oh-oh).
If this is how much a pack-a-day smoker takes in each year, imagine how much tar you would take into your body if you smoked until you were 30 years old…multiple what you see in the picture by say, 15, for 15 years. That means 15 beakers full of tar!
Tar can: Rot your lungs.
Kill your cells.
Cause cancerous tumours.
Imagine pouring hot tar used to repair roads on your hand and leaving it there. What do you think would happen to your skin?
….good luck.
Passive smoking – Beagle bogs – smokin’ Annie.?
Hi, went to go to a talk {at work} on the dangers of smoking passive smoking last week. {Passive smoking almost killed me as a child – so I know abit about the effects at least !}
The nurse had a ‘smoking annie’ doll {named like the resus annie – of the first aid courses}.
They could not demo the tar & smoke being collected glass jar {lungs} as, making the doll, light up a fag’ would be in breach of last summer’s {England} smoking in the work place laws.
That got me thinking about all them poor old Beagle bogs, forced to smoke ‘for research’. Has this been banned?
Though the laws do nowt to protect children, who’s lives are blighted by their parents’ smoking at home.
So, unless you worked in a pub, most non -smokers, passive- smoked the most in their homes – if they lived with smokers.
All smokers in my family now dead – {smoking related} – my problems solved?
Though wot damage to my lungs / wot increase cancer risk am I at from 15 to 20 years of passive smoking???
Cheers,
Secondhand smoke has been said to be more dangerous than actually smoking. I don’t completely agree with this. Don’t get me wrong, I think secondhand smoke is dangerous. What I am saying is I don’t think it is any more dangerous than firsthand smoking. When a person is smoking, they are inhaling the firsthand smoke into their bodies, and they are also inhaling the secondhand smoke floating around them. A nonsmoker sitting in a smoky room is only inhaling secondhand smoke, not firsthand, and breathing in less smoke, thus being safer than the smoker.
There are countless people in the world who live in a smoke-filled environment. Many of these people have lived long, healthy, fulfilling lives, while other have died early. It really depends on the person. Are you generally (not including inhaling all the smoke) a healthy person? If so, passive smoking won’t have nearly as much of an effect on you as it would on someone else.
Since you no longer live in a smoke-filled environment, the damage to you body will quickly repair itself. Just make sure to keep your home smoke-free. Clean everything to get rid of any traces of tobacco in your house.
Basically, if you are no longer in a house filled with cigarette smoke, and you do not smoke yourself, even 20 years of passive smoking won’t have a big effect on your health.
Best of luck!
Do you like these lyrics?
And everything’s got me down.
But sometimes the thumb just isn’t enough
to get the fuck out of this town.
Well he travels so he won’t find a way to destroy himself.
And I guess I travel looking for
the perfect method to do so.
But there comes a day where there’s nothing
left for you here,
wherever here may be
and that’s the day that it’s time to go.
So he walks to the on-ramp
and it seemed like we were in together
and just maybe if things went right,
it could stay that way forever.
But when it comes down to it;
I’m still the only one sleeping alone!
Guess I should’ve known better
than to think I wasn’t on my own.
But I’ll never make that same mistake again!
And I don’t know the answer,
but I know that you don’t have it.
I don’t know what I want,
but I know what I don’t, you bastard.
I don’t know what’s right.
I just know that you’re wrong.
I don’t know where home is,
but I know that I’m not there now.
Now is no time to be sober!
Pass more King Cobra until I’m falling over!
Until I’m falling over.
It’s Saturday afternoon and malt liquor is in the mug.
And if you had asked me then I would have slurred;
well maybe I’m a little bit drunk.
But it’s alright. T
he cops don’t come out ’till night.
And I’ll get through this.
I’ll vomit up the dope sickness.
The alcohol poisoning will pass eventually
and I’ll survive again, unfortunately.
When I dream of the future,
I see an arm full of holes, empty pockets, and a bleeding nose. Hacking up a lung filled with blood and tar on a sidewalk
next to my spangeing jar.
Next to my spangeing jar.
When I dream of the future I see
a house fallen in on itself.
When I dream of the future I see
shots of whiskey and failing health.
When I dream of the future I see
smoking crack, watching ten-year-olds buy it.
When I dream of the future I see a place with someone to wanna die with.
And I don’t know the answer,
but I know that you don’t have it.
I don’t know what I want,
but I know what I don’t, you bastard.
I don’t know what’s right,
I just know that you’re wrong.
I don’t know where home is,
but I know that I’m not there now.
I’m not there now.
I’m not there now.
Oh and in regards to the second comment, he is writing about one of his train hopping experiances in which he believes his friend travels so he doesnt find a way to destroy himself whereas the singer travels to find the perfect mothod to do so…so umm…read between the lines?
Oh did i mention i didnt write this, i was just curious as to other oppinions, you can listen to this song on imeem is riot folk and its actually amazing regardless…=)
Johnny Hobo and the freight trains-fuck cops
Good: Opening line of chorus – “I don’t know the answer, but I know that you don’t have it.” Awesome!
Bad:
1. Switching back and forth from he to I to he….and it’s you. Be either he or I, not both.
2. Rhyme scheme and structure scheme is not song-oriented. More prose or poetry-oriented. Songs are generally more repetitive in nature than this, to provide what is called a “hook”.
3. No use of a bridge to separate verses from more detailed thought.
Solution: Consolidate what you have. It’s too long from verse to chorus. The attitude I praised will still be there.
the truth about tar jars?
if you don’t know what a tar jar is, it’s a mason jar filled with a tar-like substance, which is supposed to show an estimated amount of tar in a smoker’s lungs. (http://www.movingandchoosing.com/images/resources/lg/TarJar.jpg)
my teacher passed one of these around. it was a large mason jar, almost full to the top, that was probably about the size of 1/8th of my body. she said it simulates what a person’s lungs would look like after smoking half a pack of cigarettes every day for a year. i’ve been smoking a full pack a day for about four years, meaning that my lungs would have 8 times that. which is approximately the same size of my ENTIRE body.
EXPLAIN?
* this isn’t just something my teacher does personally. these are used around the states for “educational purposes.”
your teacher has gone mad?
marijuana and Islam =(?
Now i ask this question .. because i love islam .. and my mary j ..its so hard to let go .. trying to see if we can work out somethign here … now islam says do not do anything that harms your body because this is haram … secondly it says do not intoxicate your self or do drugs… now i’ve come across a “Vaporizer” and it suppose to fix all the negatives mary j had before ..therefore taking away the harm to your lungs …and leaving all benificial..now smoking mary j this would be enough to consider it a loop hole..”A vaporizer (or vapouriser) is a device used to sublimate the active ingredients of plant material, commonly cannabis, tobacco, or any of many other herbs or blends (phyto-inhalation; see also: aromatherapy). Vaporization is an alternative to smoking. Rather than burning the herb, which produces irritating, toxic, and carcinogenic by-products, a vaporizer heats the material in a partial vacuum so that the active compounds contained in the plant boil off into a vapor. No combustion occurs, so no smoke or taste of smoke is evident. The vapor ideally contains virtually zero particulate matter or tar, and significantly lower concentrations of noxious gases such as carbon monoxide. The vapor is then inhaled directly through a hose or pipe for highest activity, or stored for subsequent inhalations in a container such as a bag or jar. With little to no smoke produced, cooler temperatures, and less material required to achieve a given level of effect, the irritating/harmful effects of smoking are greatly reduced or eliminated,[1][2][3][4][5] along with second hand smoke, by using a vaporizer. This makes vaporizers useful in places where there are public bans on smoking and under circumstances in which a more medically justifiable delivery medium is preferred.”
and says no drugs .. btu really is mary j a drug or a little plant that grows and u smoke it .. or a weed.. so wouldnt it be a herb ? therefore excludign it from allah’s forbidden list .. so we got vaporizers to deal with the harm part .. we got herb to deal with the drug part .. now the intoxication part .. can we all agree that mary j intoxication you cant overdose and you cant get higher then high .. mostly likely you’l pass out .. so it’d say this doesnt fit under intoxication .. gimme feed back .. and tell me if we can work something out here ..i believe if i was standing infront allah with this as my evidence …i think he go you know what .. you might have a point there
Weed has more carcinogens than tobacco, and have long term effects on reproduction (weak sperm in the male)
It is forbidden by Islam as are all recreational drugs. Period.
Now– I am pro-weed as it is no worse than alcohol. But Islam forbids that too…
Come to Christianity, we have no prohibitions against a little toke now and then.
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