If you ever wondered what a good reason for quitting smoking is. It is the
feeling that you are dying in the middle of the night that jolts you out of
bed!! It feels like you are under 70 feet of water and not able to reach the
surface, or there is a garbage bag on your head and you have no arms!!
But the thing is none of those things are true and you are just sitting on
the edge of the bed with your fingernails and lips turning blue, But since
you are too tough you refuse to wake your woman to call 911 and just fight
through it and repeat to yourself you are not going to die stop being a
pu$$y and man up!! The damage from emphysema alone is a good reason
to stop let alone cancer and all the other things. I have been in 85 mph
head on collision, too many motorcycle accidents to mention, fell out of
trees, off ladders, 2nd degree burns, broken ribs, fingers, chipped bones
all manners of cuts, flap lacerations, a 10" flathead screwdriver through my
palm and almost out my wrist( it pushed the skin up and I saw the shape of
the screwdriver as it almost went all the way through!!) A bunch of stuff I
can't remember too but NONE OF IT even all together hurts as much as not
being able to catch your breath even with 2 supplies of oxygen the feeling
of imminent death and all your life flashing before you, you cannot say that the cigarettes were worth it. Trust me!!

 

uuuhh...i dont git it

 

You seriously don't get it? He's saying that emphysema is the worst thing he's ever experienced and if you don't want to get it and suffer like him, stop smoking ASAP.

 

ooooohhhhhh.





wait....

what?

j/k

how much you smoke BEAST?
few paks a day?

 

I watched my wife of 47 years struggle for breath and finally die. She smoked for many years and quit (paused) many times before her failing lungs teathered her to oxygen 27/7. If you smoke ... QUIT. If you don't smoke ... DON'T START.

 

Yeah, im not sure why anyone thinks smoking is not bad for you. My old man is one that is confident smoking is not going to kill him. I know many smokers, and i have yet to fathom why the disgusting habit is picked up, much less kept. The smoking ban her in houston was the best thing any city program ever did. I wish it was mandatory nation wide.

 

My wife & I quit 2 years ago this November....best thing we ever did! Tuff at first but we feel better every day, and I only wish I did it sooner!

 

i wish they banned cigs period

 

I would have it wether I smoked or not but if you smoke believe me this is what is
coming and it is something that if you can prevent you should. Imagine not being
able to go the bathroom without a oxygen tube up your nose, because just standing
there and the walk there used up your oxygen reserve and you would have passed
out and fell if you did it without the hose. Now that is a bad day for me I can do a
lot usually but if I have a cold or if something set off an excess of mucus(dust,cold
carb cleaner, or whatever) it cuts down on the available lung area to transpire and
that's a scary feeling. I had part of my lung removed and I carry around 40 staples
to keep the thing closed they are always going to be in there, Try beating that for
body peircings I got my lung pierced!! I tell people I see with there lips or nose or
whatever they got hey I got 40 of them. I had a chest tube put in while awake
when my lung collapsed and believe me that is a freaky feeling even with two shots
of dilaudid I felt the scalpel go through my layers of skin and in to my chest cavity
while I watched the whole thing!! It was my choice to just go ahead and do it now
rather than wait for a Operating room. I asked after why he didn't use lidocaine to
numb the area and he said because I didn't ask for it. If you never had a collapsed
lung it hurts like a sumbitch and I have met woman that said it hurts more than child
birth!!

 

B-B i couldn't agree more. it seems like many are starting to get the message.
right now, mark this on the calander......i also wish they'd ban the damn things as i sit here with 1 hanging out of my head.

 

That is better than the non-scary warning on a cigarette pack.

I watched an uncle suffer with throat cancer more than likely caused by chain-smoking "Lucky" Strike cigarettes. He used to call them his "hollow points". He was a great story teller with the classic, slow-talking southern drawl until the tracheotomy took his voice.

I'm not a fan of big-nanny government but I am with freire on this....ban them! Let the tobacco farmer grow corn or sugar cane or something else that can be burned in an internal combustion engine.

 

Carl! You quit, remember! Don't make me drive over there and kick you *ss in this cold weather....

 

Nit i wish..the patches made me sicker than 3 dogs

 

What drove it home for me, I am not a smoker, is when my wife's uncle was on his last legs and terminal.

The hospice home care nurse handed me a bottle of heavy duty morphine syrup. She said "do not let anyone even take a taste since it will kill you before you know what is wrong" it was that strong.

I asked the nurse why my wife's uncle might need it. She said "it was for his last few days when he WOULD wake up and not be able to breathe, most people panic at that point and struggle too much". She said that is when I give him the morphine. "It is to calm him down so his last struggles do not panic him too much and make his last days painfull".

Very sobering experience. We fed him several type of morphine pills all day long for a month or two to keep the pain to a dull roar. The syrup was for the end when things got nasty.

Jim Henderson

 

Addiction to cigarettes is a horrible thing, also. I'm not bragging when I tell you that I've smoked and inhaled since I was in 3rd grade. Of course, I didn't smoke full time at that age, but as the years progressed, I smoked more and more often.

I was up to 2.5 packs a day at one point. Woke up every morning, coughing until I puked. But, I still couldn't voluntarily just stop.

A friend took me to a hypnotist show. Long story. I ended up getting hypnotized out in the audience and eventually brought up on stage. At the end of the show, the hypnotist asked each of us what we'd like as a "suggestion" implanted, before going home.... stop smoking or lose weight. I chose stop smoking.

I went from 2.5 packs a day to nothing, in one third of a cigarette's time. No withdrawals, no binge eating, no symptoms. I can't remember now, how long I'd quit for...but it was quite a long time.... before I started again.

Since that time, I've never gotten back up to that ridiculous amount of cigs a day. Thank God for that! I'm still at a pack a 24 hour period though... and with stress increasing, the smoking is increasing again.

I've tried hypnotism a couple times since... gone to those phony programs they advertise in the paper... Joe Blows Guaranteed Quitting session...blah, blah.

No luck. The problem with hypnosis NOT working, is that you have to WANT to do what your asking the hypnotist to help you with. If you don't want it 100%, it just won't do it. Maybe for a few days...but then...well...you know the rest.

I keep promising myself I'll quit, because I watched my mother die of emphazyma (sp?). Watching her slowly losing her lung capacity. Watching her panic when she couldn't get enough air to satisfy her needs. Watching her, at the end, with almost all brain functions nearly stopped, laying there gasping for air and unable to even acknowledge we were there. Telling her, finally, we were all there and she could rest now. She stopped breathing two breaths after that.

And still I suck them in. Do I enjoy them? Not really... maybe the first few of the day and sometimes during really stressful periods. But they're more of a habit than a desire.

I've quit a lot of things in my life time, believe me. Some nasty habits, for sure. But the niccotine addiction is probably the worst I've ever delt with. A person who has never smoked, can never understand. And I don't blame them. When I'd quit for that one long period, I could not stand to be couped up in a car with a smoker.

I guess, the best advice I can offer any of you younger folks, who are still "bulletproof", is to do your best to quit now, while you are still young. Your lungs can repair themselves after a period of time.

To me... niccotine is the alcoholism disease that an alcoholic suffers from. Just hasn't been named a disease yet, like alcoholism.

Good luck to all of you, who attempt to quit. And for those lucky enough to be successful... thank your higher power, be it God or whatever... for the help and success.