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Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:01 am
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Why should I stop smoking if I'm not addicted?
Many people don't realize they are addicted to smoking. The
think they can easily quit any time they want. But when they
try, they forget it is extremely difficult. Unfortunately, it is
very easy to get addicted. Cigarettes are just as addictive as
cocaine or heroin. Even if you only smoke one or two cigarettes
a day and even if you've never bought a pack of cigarettes
yourself, you are at risk. Stressful situations or hanging out
with friends who smoke might cause you to increase the number of
cigarettes you smoke and become addicted. Try going a whole week
without smoking at all. If you find this difficult, you are
probably addicted to cigarettes.
If I quit smoking, won't I gain weight?
Many people are afraid to quit smoking because they think they
will gain weight. In reality, many do gain a little but not
enough to change how they look. People don't gain weight because
they stop smoking. They gain weight because they start eating
more. Often, people confuse the feeling of craving nicotine with
hunger and eat to try to make this uncomfortable feeling go
away. Smokers are also used to having something in their hands
and in their mouth, so they may pick up food to replace holding
a cigarette. To keep from gaining weight, try these things:
Drink sips of water instead of eating when you feel
uncomfortable.
Eat carrot or celery sticks or other healthy, low calorie foods.
Exercise. This will also help take your mind off smoking and
make you healthier.
Keep busy. You will be less likely to eat when you're not really
hungry if you are doing other things.
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Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:07 am
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I'll quit in a year or two when I'm ready.
A lot of people put off quitting smoking, thinking that they'll
do it when the time is right. Only 5% of teens think they will
still be smoking in 5 years. Actually, about 75% of them are
still smoking more than five years later. If you smoke, it will
never seem like the right time to quit and quitting will never
be easy. The longer you smoke, the harder it will be to stop and
the more damage you will do to your body. Here are some reasons
to quit sooner rather than later:
Most teens would rather date a non-smoker.
You'll save money if you quit smoking. A pack of cigarettes
costs about $5.00. Even if you only smoke a couple packs a week,
you're spending about $40 per month and $480 per year on
smoking. Think of all the other things you could use that money
for.
You only have one pair of lungs. Any damage you do to them now
will be with you for the rest of your life.
The longer you smoke, the better your chances are of dying from
it. One out of 3 smokers die from smoking and many more become
very sick. Think about your friends who smoke. 1/3 of them will
die from smoking if none of you quit.
As you can see, smoking can have serious effects on your life.
The longer you smoke, the more damage you do to your body and
your health. Most people who begin smoking as teens say that
they wish they had never started. The decision to start or
continue smoking is entirely up to you and no one can make you
stop, but you should think about whether it is really the best
thing for your body and your life.
#Post#: 2390--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:08 am
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Caring about the Next Generation
In spite of all the health warnings, teenagers continue to get
hooked on tobacco even though they all know that it's bad for
them. It is therefore logical to conclude that a shallow
knowledge of the health risks is not enough to convince
teenagers to not smoke. I have given this issue a lot of thought
and feel like we are missing the real reasons and the real
issues behind smoking, and therefore I'm going to try to break
new ground on this issue in an attempt to save future
generations from the cycle of nicotine addiction.
I'm going to first start off by giving you a lot of much more
powerful reasons to not smoke that you've never heard before.
These will be reasons that you can easily verify are true. This
will help lay a new foundation of understanding. I will then
talk about human nature and how you will be tempted to smoke
even though it is very bad for you. I will talk about how people
are herd animals and how nicotine is introduced into your tribe.
I will also talk about how the tobacco industry uses sex to get
you to smoke.
It is my sincere desire that teenagers, like yourself, will read
this message and pass it around as much as possible and that it
will cause you to stop smoking if it isn't to late for you, or
to not start smoking. My generation (baby boomers, Vietnam, Rock
n' Roll, Hippies, Bill Clinton) were made addicts by our parents
generation (World War II, Bob Dole). As our parents generation
scrolls off the top of the screen, my generation is now coming
into power. And it is now our turn to take responsibility for
sending a new message into the future so that some day that your
children won't grow up in a Nicobrain world.
#Post#: 2391--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:09 am
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Life as a Smoker
Everyone knows that "smoking is bad for you". You know that if
you start smoking that 1/3 of you will eventually die from it.
And for the most part, that's about all you know. Is this enough
reason to not smoke? No, it's not, and here's why.
Teenagers are immortal. Teenagers live forever. At least that's
the way it seemed when I was a teenager. People's perception of
time is logarithmic and when your 18 a "half lifetime" is 9
years. Your parents are 2-3 half lifetimes older than you and
your grandparents are 4-6 half lifetimes older than you and in
your mind that is like eternity and beyond the scope of your
imagination. Thus, in your mind, the health effect form smoking
are so far off in the future that it's beyond the limits of your
imagination. Besides, surely by then they will cure cancer,
right?
People of my generation (I'm 43) have a half lifetime of 21
years. We are looking at best at one more half lifetime of
having good sex and then a half lifetime of growing old and
dying. We are past the age where it is obvious that smoking is a
bad idea. For those of you who don't know it, if you don't smoke
before you're 20 you won't start. By the time you get to 25 you
have developed the mental skills to be able to resist the social
pressures to start. That's my theory at least. But the facts are
that people over 20 don't start smoking. Smokers come from teen
smokers who can't quit
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Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:09 am
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However, there are a lot of other reasons to not smoke other
than taking a chance with cancer and heart attacks. These
reasons are actually a lot stronger and affect you a lot sooner
and affect all smokers. And I want to talk with you now about
these reasons to lay a logical foundation as to why you don't
want to be a Nicobrain.
Living Life as an Addict - Life as a smoker is a life of
addiction. You can't quit. You may think you can quit. You may
live your whole life thinking you can quit. But the reality is,
you can't quit. Sure, some people do quit, but only through
extreme effort. And even those who do quit are fighting to stay
that way for the rest of their lives.
Once you are addicted you have to have it. There isn't any
choice because it's compulsive. You will smoke. Resistance is
futile. You don't want to smoke. You wish you could quit. You
intend to quit someday, but not today. Today you will smoke. And
every time you smoke you'll think back and wish you never
started. Am I right? Talk to anyone who smokes. They will tell
you themselves. Both smokers and non-smokers alike agree that a
person who doesn't smoke shouldn't start.
When you get to smoking two packs a day your lifestyle will be
greatly altered. You will find that no matter where you go the
first thought will be, "Where do I have to go to smoke?" Every
event in your life will be based around being in places where
you are close enough to go somewhere to smoke. And if you are
going somewhere where smoking isn't permitted, the issue will be
how long you will have to go without smoking and if the event is
good enough to give up smoking for that period of time.
#Post#: 2393--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:10 am
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When you get to smoking two packs a day your lifestyle will be
greatly altered. You will find that no matter where you go the
first thought will be, "Where do I have to go to smoke?" Every
event in your life will be based around being in places where
you are close enough to go somewhere to smoke. And if you are
going somewhere where smoking isn't permitted, the issue will be
how long you will have to go without smoking and if the event is
good enough to give up smoking for that period of time.
Because smoking is addictive you are not really choosing if you
are going to smoke or not. You are really choosing if you are
going to become a smoker or not. Because most people who want to
quit smoking can't, you have to ask yourself this question,
"What do I want to become? Do I want to be a smoker?"
For example, you can't smoke at the movies. That's two hours
without a cigarette. Is this movie worth going two hours without
a cigarette for? You'll notice that if you have friend that
smokes that they will want to smoke in your car while going to
the movies. If they can't smoke on the way there they will have
to smoke outside just before going in. That way they can get
their "fix" that will last them for two hours. If they are
really addicted they will have to smoke one in the middle of the
movie. So instead of enjoying the story, they will be looking
for a boring part so they can sneak out and burn one without
missing anything
#Post#: 2394--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:10 am
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Cigarettes are so addictive that you'll even smoke when your
sick. You can be in be coughing your head off and so sick you
can barely get out of bed, and you'll still get up, put on a
jacket, and go out on the front porch in the middle of winter to
smoke one. If you wake up in the middle of the night needing a
cigarette and you don't have one, you'll put on some clothes and
drive to the nearest open store at 3:00 in the morning to get a
pack. During the war in Bosnia smokers were so addicted that
they would trade food for cigarettes even though they were
starving. Do you want "gotta have a cigarette" to be part of
your life? Before you start smoking you should consider if you
want to spend your life addicted.
Life is short. It's may seem like forever when you're young, but
it's just a blip and then your gone. During your life you will
experience a lot of things and who you are and what you think
about is what defines you as a person. You are what you think
and what you do. Imagine if you will that at the end of your
life that your thoughts are downloaded and put into a great
database and sorted by category of thought and added up by time
spent thinking about it. If you are a smoker, you will find that
the number one activity in your life was either smoking or
thinking about smoking. If you are a non-smoker you number one
activity is getting laid or thinking about getting laid. When
choosing between cigarettes and sex, I'll take sex.
#Post#: 2395--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:12 am
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A smoker is not just a person who smokes some cigarettes.
Smoking is a lifestyle. And the lifestyle of a smoker is very
different than that of a non-smoker. Because smoking becomes so
integrated into what you do and affects the decisions you make
it becomes integral to who you are as a person.
#Post#: 2396--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:13 am
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here this is why kids smoke
When it comes to relating to kids, every parent is sure to be
frustrated at times. Too often, our kids feel that we, as
adults, simply don’t understand the world they live in and the
pressures they face. By getting to know some of the reasons they
may try smoking, we can show our sons and daughters that we do
understand what they’re going through and where they’re
coming from. This kind of understanding can lead to a stronger
environment of communication.
Some reasons why kids may light up include:
To fit in, be part of a group
To look cool
To experiment, just try it out
They have a friend or friends who smoke
To be rebellious
To look older
#Post#: 2397--------------------------------------------------
Re: SMOKING
DIR By: lubhan
Date: December 14, 2016, 11:13 am
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how to talk to kids abt it
No matter what we do as parents, we’re never going to seem as
cool to our kids as the “cool kids” in school. Even so,
studies show that what we do and what we say can make a dramatic
difference in the choices our kids make. The way we approach our
children about this issue will be most greatly influenced by
their age. Studies also indicate that children start
experimenting with smoking as early as age 8, with the majority
being between the ages of 12 to 14. This statistic, while
staggering, clearly emphasizes that it’s important to start
talking early, and to keep talking often about this critical
issue. The suggestions found here can help lead to insightful
and beneficial conversations and help develop a better
understanding between you and your child when it comes to not
smoking. On this site, you’ll learn to:
Talk to children without lecturing
Listen to their answers without being judgmental or critical
Continually look for common ground where the two of you can
agree
Keep the words and ideas you introduce on a level your child can
relate to and understand
Touch on the consequences of their actions
Getting through to kids about the risks of smoking requires
asking good questions, making persuasive arguments and talking
candidly about the consequences. Be sure to go beyond the
long-term health risks of smoking and touch on the short-term
issues as well. By talking openly and honestly, you can make a
difference and help your child see the benefits of leading a
smoke-free life.
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