What about smoking?

Answer 1

Its not just the nicotine. Its also the other 50+ chemicals they out in cigarettes. Also the main problem is habit.
We have been used to having body sensations which we translate as 'my body needs something, which we have attempted to satisfy by having a cigarette.
When we try to stop smoking, we still get these 'my body needs something' sensations, and we still feel that we want a cigarette. We have to train our body to be more selective. When we feel we need something, we have to work out what it is that we actually need.
A glass of water is an excellent substitute if nothing else comes to mind, as it helps with the clearance of the toxic substances in our body. Another good substitute is a bag of salted peanuts, used in combination with the water.
Another thing to do is to find an activity which occupies the mind or body. Go swimming - nobody wants to smoke while they are swimming. Slowly, as our body adjusts and translates the 'want something' feelings into something other than cigarettes, then the feelings begin to go away. We know its not a cigarette that the body really needs, because as soon as we've had one we still have the feeling, and want another!

Answer 2

Hello,

I have a story to tell you. It's about a wonderful man. A loving and caring father and grandfather. He'd been smoking all of his life. He was a great person. A good person... A kind person, who unfortunately had a bad habit... smoking. By his mid-50's, he was slowly getting sick, and it progressed rapidly. He quite smoking in his early 60's. He was, from the age of 66, connected to an oxygen tank and his mobilty critically reduced. He was in and out of hospital during those years. He couldn't even go in the shower by himself. Here was this loving man who was becoming incapacitated. He rarely moved from his lounge chair in the dining room, as his stength wouldn't allow him to. In the early 2004 he was hospitalised, by mid-year he was in rehab, and on 27th September 2004 he passed away in front of his wife and his eldest daughter.

His daughter still mourns. She was always there, when she wasn't working she was by his side and with her mother. His grandson was with her almost everyday too, to comfort her as she was distressed and emotional.

I am the grandson. and to this very day I mourn a great man. He achieved so much in his life.

My Grandfather was aged just 69 when his life ended, leaving his loving wife, 5 children, 12 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. His life was drastically cut short due to smoking and his lungs breaking down. His lungs were only working at 18%. 18% !

Smoking is one of the worlds leading causes for disease and loss of life... preventable loss of life. If there is any good that can come from smoking, that's learning from our mistakes and banning it completely.

This is just one story of thousands around the world. My heart is still broken... i didn't know my Pop before he was sick. I'm 19. And my strongest memory... an image I will never forget, is my Grandfather on Christmas Day 2003. He could barely move. It was a hot Australian day, and he was so sick. I would glady have taken my life to save his. I loved him so much... I still do.

Answer 3

If you learn and understand what alpha 7 nicotinic receptors do in your own brain you will be able to consider this better but then of course how they deliver the neurotransmitter agonists that activate these receptors may depend on how much jet fuel rains on the tobacco plants themselves or how many busy highways surround the fields where the heaviest gasses sink to root level and growing levels or how many killicides of types are used over the last 50 to 100 years or so.

Answer 4

Been smoking for 29 years and have no desire to quit. There's nothing better than that first drag in the morning with coffee!

Answer 5

Smelly! Plus there are all kinds of toxins,tar & nicotine in a cigerette that is so very harmful for you and your health. Most people know it and don't want to quit anyways since it is additing. I use to smoke in my teens and am so glad that I don't now!
Personally, I don't think that I would be alive today if I hadn't quit then!

Answer 6

it is a very addictive, and expensive thing, smoking. And I personally will do it the rest of my life. Why? you ask because it is my freedom to do what I want with MY BODY!!!

Answer 7

well i am going to tell that it is bad, i dont know exactally what you want to know, but smoking can resort in the development in ashma, and you can have shortness of breath and your lunges feel really heavy after running, it can also affect how you recover from surgery, colds, and other illnesses, it can also cause cancer, so take it from someone who use to smoke dont do it.

Answer 8

I love it..but We quit..had enough..it costs 2 much..I don't care if anyone smokes

Answer 9

i don know theres lots of things about it n 1 of them am smoking right now

Answer 10

I think that it's the grossest thing that anyone can do. Everyone at work during the summer told me never to start because it was the worst decision that they had ever made!!