Tobacco. What do you think about those who are proud to be a smoker?

Question

Why are they proud to give such a bad example to other peoples?

Answer 1

When ever I see some one smoking I give him the following information, I would advice every one should do that.
In 2004, 44.5 million adults (20.9 percent) in the United States were current smokers—23.4 percent of men and 18.5 percent of women. An estimated 70 percent of these smokers said they wanted to quit.

An estimated 14.6 million (40.5 percent) adult everyday smokers in 2004 had stopped smoking for at least 1 day during the preceding 12 months because they were trying to quit.

An estimated 45.6 million adults were former smokers in 2004, representing 50.6 percent of those who had ever smoked
Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases and reducing the health of smokers in general.

Quitting smoking has immediate as well as long–term benefits, reducing risks for diseases caused by smoking and improving health in general.

Smoking cigarettes with lower machine-measured yields of tar and nicotine provides no clear benefit to health.

The list of diseases caused by smoking has been expanded to include abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, cervical cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, pneumonia, periodontitis, and stomach cancer. These are in addition to diseases previously known to be caused by smoking, including bladder, esophageal, laryngeal, lung, oral, and throat cancers, chronic lung diseases, coronary heart and cardiovascular diseases, as well as reproductive effects and sudden infant death syndrome.
Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. In fact, smoking tobacco is the major risk factor for lung cancer. In the United States, about 90 percent of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80 percent of lung cancer deaths in women are due to smoking. People who smoke are 10 to 20 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than people who do not smoke. The longer a person smokes and the more cigarettes smoked each day increases a person's risk for developing lung cancer.

People who quit smoking have a lower risk of lung cancer than if they had continued to smoke, but their risk is higher than people who never smoked.

Smoke from other people's cigarettes, known as secondhand smoke, causes lung cancer as well. There are more than 4,000 chemicals in secondhand smoke. More than 50 of these chemicals cause cancer in people or animals. Every year, about 3,000 nonsmokers die from lung cancer due to secondhand smoke.
If you have tried to quit smoking, you know how hard it can be.

Nicotine is a very addictive drug, and usually people make two or three tries, or more, before they successfully quit.

Each time you try to quit, you can learn what works for you and what situations are problematic.

Using proven cessation treatments can double your chance of success.
Five Keys for Quitting Smoking
Studies have shown that these five steps will help you quit and quit for good. You have the best chances of quitting if you use them together.

Get Ready
Get Support
Learn new skills and behaviors
Get medication and use it correctly.
Be prepared for relapse or difficult situations.

1. Get Ready
Set a quit date.

Change your environment.
Get rid of ALL cigarettes and ashtrays in your home, car, and place of work.
Don't let people smoke around you.

Review your past attempts to quit. Think about what worked and what did not.

Once you quit, don't smoke—NOT EVEN A PUFF!

2. Get Support and Encouragement
Studies have shown that you have a better chance of being successful if you have help. You can
get support in many ways —

Tell your family, friends, and co-workers that you are going to quit and want their support. Ask them not to smoke around you or leave cigarettes out where you can see them.

Talk to your health care provider (e.g., doctor, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, psychologist, or smoking cessation coach or counselor).

Get individual, group, or telephone counseling. Counseling doubles your chances of success.

The more help you have, the better your chances are of quitting. Programs are available at local hospitals and health centers free. Call your local health department for information about programs in your area.

Telephone counseling is available at 1–800–QUIT–NOW.

3. Learn New Skills and Behaviors
Try to distract yourself from urges to smoke. Talk to someone, go for a walk, or get busy with a task.

When you first try to quit, change your routine. Use a different route to work. Drink tea instead of coffee. Eat breakfast in a different place.

Do something to reduce your stress. Take a hot bath, exercise, or read a book.

Plan something enjoyable to do every day.

Drink a lot of water and other fluids.

4. Get Medication and Use It Correctly
Medications can help you stop smoking and lessen the urge to smoke.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved six medications to help you quit smoking:
Bupropion SR—Available by prescription.
Nicotine gum—Available over–the–counter.
Nicotine inhaler—Available by prescription.
Nicotine nasal spray—Available by prescription.
Nicotine patch—Available by prescription and over-the-counter.
Nicotine lozenge—Available over–the–counter.

Ask your health care provider for advice and carefully read the information on the package.

All of these medications will double your chances of quitting and quitting for good.

Nearly everyone who is trying to quit can benefit from using a medication. However, if you are pregnant or trying to become pregnant, nursing, under age 18, smoking fewer than 10 cigarettes per day, or have a medical condition, talk to your doctor or other health care provider before taking medications.

5. Be Prepared for Relapse or Difficult Situations
Most relapses occur within the first three months after quitting. Don't be discouraged if you start smoking again. Remember, most people try several times before they finally quit. The following are some difficult situations you may encounter:

Alcohol. Avoid drinking alcohol. Drinking lowers your chances of success.

Other Smokers. Being around smoking can make you want to smoke.

Weight Gain. Many smokers will gain some weight when they quit, usually less than 10 pounds. Eat a healthy diet and stay active. Don't let weight gain distract you from your main goal—quitting smoking. Some quit-smoking medications may help delay weight gain.

Bad Mood or Depression. There are a lot of ways to improve your mood other than smoking. Some quit-smoking medications also lessen depression.

If you are having problems with any of these situations, talk to your doctor or other health care provider.

Answer 2

I am a cancer nurse and I have seen people who come into the hospital with symptoms of lung cancer and they suddenly quit smoking after like 20 or 30 years of smoking 2 paks per day. They were in denial about the adverse effects of smoking.
Smoking is an addiction and those people who are so proud to be smokers are addicted to a habit they cannot quit and they do not want to be singled out. I think they have smoked so long it has affected their brain.
What really gets me is the parents who buy cigarettes for their children around 14-17 yrs old. They say they will smoke whether they buy the cigarettes for them or not.
Not in my house. My daughter tried that one. I told her it was a nasty habit and she could not afford it. She moved out and doesn't smoke because she has no job, and no money and cannot buy them. Suddenly food has become more important in her life than a cigarette.

Answer 3

Do you eat white sugar? White sugar causes hypertension which can lead to heart disease.
Do you drink coffee, tea, or carbonated sodas? These all contain caffiene which is bad for the kidneys.
Do you drink alcohol? Alcohol consumption can lead to liver disease.
Do you drive a car? Cars emit pollutants which are harmful to air quality and can lead to lung diseases.

The list goes on and on. The point here is that there are many habits we engage in which are bad for us, but they are none the less legal. Most people who smoke are not proud that they smoke, and most would like to quit, but lack the drive or will-power. Smokers are not arrogant, they are just sick of being treated like second class citizens. As for the second hand smoke argument, show me a study that hasn't been questioned or outright discredited. However, if you are able to I will revert back to the question, Do you drive a car? I believe that people should be respectful of others, but that doesn't give you the right to tell people they cannot do something which is legal, except maybe if they are doing it on your property.

Answer 4

This is disgusting that some people think they are doing great thing by smoking and they think it is style.You have probably heard that cigarette smoking is a leading cause of death in the United States. Cigarette smokers die an average of 10 years sooner than nonsmokers. Tobacco is responsible for over half of the deaths from cancer. The Surgeon General issued a report in 1964 saying that smoking was harmful.Tobacco smoke contains more than 60 cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens), including polycyclic hydrocarbons, N-nitrosamines, aldehydes, and inorganic compounds. Twenty of the carcinogens cause cancer in the lungs and throat.[2] The most carcinogenic chemicals in tobacco are the nitrosamines. These are found in tobacco smoke, including second-hand smoke (environmental tobacco smoke), and chewing tobacco. The chemicals cause irritation and inflammation that gradually damage the cells of the mouth, nose, throat, and lungs causing them to become cancerous.

Answer 5

I'm a smoker trying to quit. This is day 4 without a cigarette. I was never 'proud' of smoking. I did enjoy smoking. It's most definitely an addiction and the withdrawal is seriously rough. I'm not sure I've ever known a smoker who was 'proud' of it. Possibly you meant something else entirely, not sure, but there's no proud it in let me tell you.

Answer 6

I smoked for about 29 years. The last 20 years of that, I smoked only when I drank, but for many of those years, I drank often (and I quit drinking at the end of that 20 years, so the smoking went with it).

I was stupid for thinking that smoking provided anything worthwhile in my life. And I never felt proud. Sometimes, I felt defensive, but never proud that I was so stupid to use a product that is so devastating to our health and to our lives.

I don't think smokers are proud to smoke. They know they are doing something that is hurting them. They just don't know how to quit, so they put on the front that smoking gives them something worthwhile and they are free to do it and so on.

It's easy to say quit, but so hard to do -- for the first few days.

If any reader decides to quit, good luck (and good health) to you.

Remember, after the first day or so, your only enemy is the urge to light up again. Or, as my brother put it, "You're only one cigarette away from starting up again."

Answer 7

im sure there are ppl like that but its so hard to think about becuz its so dumb. how can u be proud of something that will kill you, and gives off 2ndhand smoking to those around you. giving them cancer. how can they be proud to pay such prices for an addictive form of slow suicide? i dont get it

Answer 8

It is just sad, although I have never met a smoker who is PROUD to be one. Generally they just don't care, or are deeply engrossed in their habit. It is their choice, albeit a foolish one. The sadder part is that many do not choose to limit how much they expose nonsmokers, and still insist there is no danger.

Answer 9

I am not proud I am a smoker.
I know it is a bad habit and very unhealthy.
I also do not like being treated as a second class citizen because I am a smoker though.

Answer 10

Im noy sure that there proud as much as they just dont want people preaching to them. Oh well if there clothes , breath, fingers, hair stink. And they gotta hack up a flem ball every morning and then smoke another one before they do anything else. leave them be.....

As long as they stay away from me at resteraunts parks or wherever when im trying to breath or eat.

Answer 11

I find that people who smoke do not want others to quit, cause they will then be losing a smoke friend. I just quit for the second time on August 1, and it is hard, cause my smoking friends go out of their way to come to me ans ask me if I want a smoke. They seem not to want me to succeed, cause they could not. I am determined to succeed