[Rhodes22-list] Smoking cessation reply to Bob and Slim, et al.

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Smoking cessation

     Bob,

	You say that you are sorry about informing others of the veracity of posts
by checking Snopes?  I have not checked Snopes on the following because not
all will agree with it up front.  You said, “At this point, the docs cannot
determine whether we ever smoked based on our physical exams.  It's now as
if we never smoked.”  Then you better change doctors because competent
physicians usually can detect smokers who have smoked as little as three
years fifty years ago. 
	While the body is able to repair much damage caused by smoking to internal
organs, some, especially to the lungs is permanent.  Many patients have told
me that they do not smoke and I record that information on patient
histories, only to have a Radiologist ask me to ask the patient for more
details.  Nine times out of ten, they smoked years ago.  The other one in
ten turns out to have been exposed to air borne junk, like mine work or
cotton mill work.  
        The good part of quitting is that some recovery does take place,
less damage continues to occur and the risk of lung cancer drops.
	The eventual development of emphysema does not go away.  When damage occurs
to air sac (aveoli) walls it is permanent.  When you go to the supermarket
and see the people with tubes in their nose and a shoulder bag, just think,
there goes I.
	Another option coming on line to cease smoking is a vaccine type treatment. 
It appears to have a high success rate, but is still in the trial stages.
	As I said in my first reply, due to politics and therefore lack of funding
of studies, there will not be published accurate reports about second hand
smoke.  While smoking has direct deleterious effects on the smoker, the
carcinogens in second hand smoke are documented.  Even smoking outside of
the house does not stop exposure to those carcinogens to inside spouse.  It
only reduces the warning odors.
	All these facts do not deter even some health care workers from smoking. 
Yes I know doctors, nurses, and other health care specialist who smoke. 
Once you start, the chemical effects have been shown to change DNA.  So
quitting is not just braking a habit, it involves appropriate chemical
(pharmaceutical) help.

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
Addendum:  "Smoking is a lifetime commitment."

 


 



Slim-3 wrote:
> 
> If you are a tobacco user or know someone who wants to quit please read
> this.
> 
> I tried my first cigarette when I was 11 years old and by the time I was
> 12
> I was a daily smoker and addict.  By 14 I was taking pride in rolling my
> own
> smokes.  Before I was old enough to drive a car, I was regularly using
> every
> tobacco product I could think of--cigars, pipes, chew, you name it.  Not
> much has changed since then.  I'm a veritable tobacco priest, thus
> devoted.
> 
> I've tried many times to quit and always failed.  My non-smoking wife no
> longer allows smoking in our house so there I am out on the back porch in
> the freezing cold feeding my addiction.  They say to identify the
> "triggers."  For me, being awake is the trigger.  The only time I don't
> smoke is when I'm asleep or in the shower.  It's the first thing I do when
> I
> get up and the last thing I do before bed.
> 
> Now hope has come.  There's a new prescription drug on the market called
> Chantix.  Here's how it works.  Nicotine produces dopamine in the brain
> which is why you get pleasure from it.  This pill prevents the nicotine
> from
> producing the dopamine so smoking is no longer pleasurable.  You no longer
> get that "pop."  Once you start the medication, you can continue smoking
> all
> you want but after only a few days into it I found little pleasure in
> smoking.  I'd light up, take a couple puffs and put it out.  I've now been
> on the pill about three weeks and have not smoked at all for the last six
> days.  I have very few cravings, little or no withdrawal symptoms, I'm not
> gaining weight and have no apparent side affects.
> 
> The beauty of this is that I haven't really had to "try to quit" at all.
> The pill does all the work.  It has not taken any will power on my part.
> The will power will be needed when I go off the pill.  The recommended
> treatment is three months. Without the medication, of course the nicotine
> WILL produce the dopamine and so I'll be one puff away from going back. 
> But
> I'm determined and committed to becoming free of this slavery.
> 
> I'm not out of the woods yet so wish me luck, but I recommend this product
> without hesitation.
> 
> Slim
> 
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