Health is number one priority.
Shakespeare wrote,
"This above all, to thine own itself be true."
INVALID EXCUSES NOT TO QUIT SMOKING
Spouse smokes.
I can't quit right now -- too much going on.
I'll quit next week, or next month.
I feel too down. I feel better when I smoke.
I'll wait until after the holidays.
I'll wait until the end of the year and make a new year resolution.
Why should I quit now? It's too late.
Smoking helps me relax.
It's too hard to quit.
I enjoy it so much.
Tobacco keeps me going.
I'm too stressed to quit now.
Smoking helps me feel better when I get up in the morning.
Smoking keeps me thin.
I have to have a cigarette after dinner.
Smoking is good company. I don't feel so alone.
Having a drink without a cigarette is just not the same.
Smoking helps me think.
It may kill me, but we all die sometime.
I've tried to quit several times but I can't.
I quit for a few days, but I got too irritable.
I'll buy some cigarettes just in case I can't quit.
My dad smokes. It doesn't hurt him.
I'll quit cigarettes and taper off by smoking a pipe for awhile.
I don't want to grow old anyway.
I know the statistics, but it won't happen to me.
I want to quit, but (add your past excuses).
VALID REASONS TO STOP SMOKING
-Health! You CAN quit and control weight.
- Smelly habit.
- Secondhand smoke affects loved ones.
-Often leaves a mess.
-Escalating cost.
-Smoking tobacco in any form has become socially obnoxious.
-A worsening cough may result in job termination.
-It is becoming more inconvenient to find anyplace to smoke.
-It is foolish to wait to quit until after a heart attack, or cancer,
or just plain failing health.
- Some diseases caused by smoking are: heart disease, lung cancer,
cancer of the mouth, esophogus, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, cervix, penis,
colon, other cancer-caused diseases, and chronic bronchitis.
-Tobacco contains at least 40 carcinogens. One cigarette per day
increases cancer risk.
- Smokers age 45-64 are three times more likely to die than non-smokers.
- If teenage smokers do not quit, about half will die in middle
or early old age.
- Smoking kills about 3 million people per year.
- Cigarette smoking is a major cause of cancer of the mouth,
throat, bladder, and other cancers, including kidney, pancreas,
stomach, sexual, and rectal.
-About half of adult smokers have quit. You can too, and control weight.
-The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that
smoking causes three times more deaths than aids, automobile
accidents, murders, substance abuse, and suicide, all combined.
- QUIT, and
*After eight hours, blood oxygen level increases to normal.
*After 48 hours, the ability to smell and taste improves.
*After a few weeks, circulation improves. Lung function improves by 1/3.
*After only several months, lung congestion is reducedand energy
increases, and Cilia, the little wiggly hairs in your lungs regrow. It is
they that clear the junk out of your lungs.
*Within one year, risk of heart attack is reduced by 50 percent.
*Within two years, the risk of heart attack is near normal.
*Within five years, risk of lung cancers reduced by approximately 50%.
-The AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION states that secondhand smoke:
*Contains 200 poisons, forty-three of which cause cancer.
*Causes 3000 lung cancers per year.
*Causes 35,000 heart disease deaths per year.
*Causes up to 300,000 cases of respiratory diseases in children.
*In children under 18 months of age, causes pneumonia, ear
infections, bronchitis, coughing, and increased mucus.
*Smokers die at least seven years earlier than non-smokers.
In addition to that, they suffer with emphysema and pain of others
diseases before dying. Ask anyone with throat cancer or lung cancer
what caused it. Ask any emphysema sufferer what it is like
to be on oxygen 24/7.
-SMOKERS ARE:
*twelve times more likely to die of lung cancer,
*ten times more likely to die of other lung diseases,
*ten times more likely to die of cancer of the larynx,
*six times more likely to die of heart disease,
*twice as likely to die of stroke.
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I WAS A COMPULSIVE SMOKER
Notwithstanding repeated research, many surveys, and many statistical analyses
which shouted, "QUIT!!,I tried to stop smoking, but I continued smoking. Several
close friends and relatives were hooked to oxygen tanks for years before they died.
I remember doing maintenance work on IBM data processing equipment.
I was squatting between it and a window through which the sun was streaming.
An equipment operator rushed over with a large fire extinguisher. Fortunately I stood up
at the right time. He stopped short of drenching the machine and me. He had noticed billows of
smoke in the sunlight. I looked around and realized that I had lit three cigarettes one after
another. I had left them in three locations on and in the machine. I thought to myself,
"I am going to quit smoking. I am not going to let smoking control me.
Enough is enough."
But it wasn't. I looked for excuses not to quit smoking. I kidded myself. I was not
concerned enough about my health. I reminded myself that my father had
started smoking at age six. Even though addicted to nicotine, in later years
he seemed to be healthy, but not for long.
At the time of his death, he had been on oxygen with labored breathing for so long he
simply did not want to live any longer. As I rationalized, I told myself that I felt OK.
I had friends who were addicted to cigarettes. They all seemed OK.
Two later died after long suffering with emphysema.
One childhood friend later died of cancer after walking around with a significant portion
of his lower jaw missing.
Then I read of a study that indicated that smoking accelerated the rate of death in conjunction
with any and all known physical illnesses. That WAS enough. I quit smoking that day.
However, I then had to fight the fridge and weight gain. More excuses. More denial of the truth.
Thirty pounds in one month. Enough was too much. I finally got the eating problem under control
and actually began experiencing weight loss. If I were to have had this tape available to me,
I could and would have quit smoking much earlier. I would not have gained the weight.
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