should I stop smoking? I am going to die anyway!?

Answer 1

You please yourself,so long as you accept that others can do the same.If you dont interfere with the comfort of others you are entitled to die how you like.If you stop smoking your teeth will improve in condition,your stomach condition will improve,you will have more breath for sport,your sense of taste will recover,you will not have as much throat and chest trouble,you will not smell as bad ,your breath will be cleaner etc etc etc.You are right about hearing the horseman, s approaching hooves,sooner rather than later eh? Your choice always,but remember,death is very personal.

Answer 2

It's up to you, it's really none of my business. But since you're asking . . . it's about quality of life. If you need cigarettes to make you feel good, and they give you comfort, then keep smoking. How old are you and are you dying of something specific? If you quit smoking you will have better quality of life in terms of physically moving around, and the freedom to go where you like when you like. Developing emphysema means that you will not have this luxury, you will end up housebound or in a nursing home, with oxygen to help you breathe. But a warning - if you live alone and still smoke, they won't give you oxygen because of the fire hazard, so you will just have to suffer. And then you won't be well enough to smoke. But if that's what you choose, it's your life and your right to make the decision, and nobody can take that away from you.

Answer 3

It's your choice and your decision. Why ask YA?
My husband smokes a pipe occasionally (never in the house) and I was brought up in a home where everyone smoked. I tried it and waved a cigarette around for effect, then gave it up for my love of chocolate.
Pros for smoking - you enjoy it, you are less likely to turn to nibbles for comfort so will keep your weight down, a companionable thing to do with friends who smoke.
Cons - it is a very expensive habit with nothing really tangible to show for your money, except
Your clothes will smell dreadful/laundry bills higher
Your hair and skin will reek like an old ash tray
The opposite sex may find you a turn-off - non-smokers don't much like kissing a smoker!
You will be more prone to chest infections = bronchitis = emphysema = oesophagul cancer, cancer of the bronchus and lung cancer.
You are likely to develop heart disease, circulatory problems (risk of amputations) and strokes.
Smoking has been linked to several other unpleasant diseases.
OK, so we are all going to die, but it is S**d's Law that it will happen just when you realise that you have everything to live for.

Answer 4

Unless you are totally brain dead you know the risks. You are asking here because you are looking for permission. Stop being codependent. That is your biggest problem. Quitting smoking is just a matter of not buying any anymore. To quit smoking, do not smoke. How do you do that? Do not smoke. For any reason. It is that simple. If you cannot manage that, then you just have to learn to live with the consequences, which could be very minor or painful in the extreme. There are a lot of hundred year old smokers, and there are a lot of thirty year olds with emphysema and lung cancer. As Bogey said, yo pays yo way and yo takes yo choice. He took his and died of throat cancer. But he was married to Lauren Becall, so everything evens out, I suppose.

Answer 5

Well is you question a off the cuff remark or do you have some thing wrong????
I have Emphasema,I wasnt going to give up smoking either after 45 years.
I recently had a nasty chest infection that had my heart rate way up and over the top not to mention pulse as well.
At one stage they were going to put me out to have me a a respirator to give my body a rest as I had been struggling to breath for 3 days using my Asthma meds lol
well a week of Hospital on oxygen changed my mind I gave up cold turkey just seeing my familys faces was plenty enough
so think about it I know how hard it is and yup I do sneak one very late at night "the only one I have now"

Answer 6

It's not just the risk of dying that is a problem with smoking though is it. What about the increase chances of spending years on a nebulisor because you can't breath properly, or losing limbs because of the break down in your circulation, or being disabled from a stroke.

Smokers put more money into the national health service through tax on cigarettes than they cost through treatment so as far as I'm concerned you can smoke to your heart's content. I doubt we'll ever meet so you won't be poluting my atmosphere, but from your point of view it seems a pretty stupid idea.

Answer 7

Yep, but either peacefully in bed of old age after a full rich life perhaps.

OR

Middle aged with an oxygen mask strapped to your weak air gasping face and regularly coughing up the little of what is left of your black rotting lungs. The smart suits of the cigarette company not even sending you so much as a $1 thank you card for the many thousands of dollars you gave them and yet still to your painful dying face they deny that cigarettes are addictive and that you chose to die their way. Not so much as a feeling of regret other than they can't bleed you any further soon.

When I came to that realization when I did research on the tobacco industry it help enormously for me to kick the habit almost right there and then. The tobacco chiefs are vultures I vowed they would never see another penny from my pocket.

Answer 8

If you enjoy smoking like I do, then continue smoking. We are all going to die anyway like you said so why want to live longer and suffer? Live one day at a time and enjoy life to the fullest. This my personal view.

Answer 9

Interesting so much that i sat there and worked out if you smoke 20 a day for 20years with a very conservative annual increase of 3% you will pay £54931.55 for the pleasure but i would imagine its probably double that.Only you can decide.Good luck

Answer 10

As someone who quit smoking 20 years ago. I can tell you without a doub't. Smoking not only shortens your life, but it steals from the quality of it as well. When I campare my health and well being to people my age that still smoke, it my friend is like night and day.