"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."
|
| |
A Simple Exercise For Quitting Smoking
This exercise to help you quit smoking is one that I have used with success. It is an adaptation of a general method for breaking bad habits or addictions. Unlike many other stop smoking help methods, this is meant to be used over a period of days, weeks ...
Just the facts on youth and smoking
(NC)-See how much you know about youth and smoking in Canada. The facts could astound you. Answer true or false to the following statements. 1. Almost all adult smokers began smoking before they could legally buy cigarettes. 2. The ...
Smoking Cancer may cause most cancer in black males U.S. than other ethnic groups
For African American males, smoking may be a serious problems because the last researches have estimated that the cancer death rate for black men it is about 40 per cent more higher than for white men and remain very higher than others ethnic groups in ...
|
|
|
|
| |
Why and how I managed to quit smoking.
Fifty three years ago I had a friend who was a girl (not an official Girlfriend).
Her mom smoked and worked away from home all day, an opportunity her daughter utilized to pinch her smokes and share them with me. Both our parents smoked as well.
So off and on I became accustomed to smoking; my smoking habit got a real boost when I joined the merchant marine service at the age of seventeen, because sailors are allowed to purchase cigarettes tax-free outsideof territorial waters.
Eventually I began smoking more and even more cigarettes and had to get out of bed two or three times nightly for an additional nicotine fix.
Life without cigarettes was just not imaginable.
Going on an airline was sheer torture because I was not allowed to smoke for two or three of hours.
On a flight from Canada to Singapore I sneaked a few of smokes in the washroom in spite of the fact that airplanes were already putting people in jail for smoking on board.
As the years went by half of my mother's family died of lung cancer.
My father's only sibling died of lung cancer.
My mother died of a brain tumor - she used to be a heavy smoker.
My father developed lung cancer.
After he got lung cancer he visited me; he looked like a pathetic skin on bones human, wearing a corduroy suit, however even at this point he still stood outside SMOKING IN OUR GARAGE.
My brother's wife has breast cancer; my brother smokes cigars, and second-hand smoke is known to cause breast cancer.
I personally began having coughing spells in the nighttime and the vision in my left eye began to deteriorate.
Me quitting smoking? Impossible : I've no willpower.
Because I knew I couldn't possibly quit I never even bothered to acquire Nicorette or any other smoking-cessation product.
So after a whole lifetime of smoking I knew I was going to die of lung cancer too.
However WAIT: the story isn't finished yet.
On September fourth, 2002 I was browsing in a Calgary bookstore called Black and Noble and a book jumped out at me.
It was a 385 page book called "How to Stop Smoking" by a British accountant named Allan Carr.
I glanced at the 1st couple of pages where the author boasted that his book was the only way to quit smoking without any withdrawal symptoms or even without a nocotine patch.
I bought the book because I was curious to see how anyone could write 385 pages about how to quit smoking.
I finished the book in 9 days.
On September 13, 2002 at 3 pm I took my last drag from a cigarette and exhaled it through a Kleenex. That was my last cigarette. Since then I have never even thought about smoking again. People can smoke all around me and I'm not even slightly tempted.
This book really changed my mindset. The book "How to Stop Smoking" by Allan Carr is not available in American bookstores, but can be found in Canada and at internet bookstores such as Amazon. I no longer have my smoker's cough and the vision in my left eye is back to normal.
About the Author
Frank Hague quit smoking at the age of 58, however, his little brother still smokes although his wife has breast cancer. http://www.youwillquit.com
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Man coaxed toddler into taking marijuana - Brisbane Times
A US man shown on videotape coaxing two toddlers into smoking marijuana has pleaded guilty. Vanswan Polty was sentenced to seven years in a Texas prison in a plea deal on Tuesday, after pleading guilty to two charges of injury to a child and other ...
Media exposure of children linked to obesity, tobacco use: study - PhysOrg
The study, "Media and Child and Adolescent Health: A Systematic Review," was done by the Yale University School of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and California Pacific Medical Center and published by Common Sense Media. It looked at the ...
Smoker's widow seeks $79.5M award at Supreme Court - MSN MoneyCentral
WASHINGTON (AP) - A cigarette maker and a smoker's widow squared off for the third time at the Supreme Court on Wednesday over a $79.5 million punitive damages award, but the real battle was between the justices and their counterparts on Oregon's ...
Smoking: New ways to quit - Newsday
By now, even the tobacco companies agree: Smoking is bad for your health -- very bad, in fact. Cigarettes are the most hazardous, but cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco also contribute to tobacco's terrible toll. And secondhand smoke is an ...
State universities may relax smoking ban - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
HARRISBURG -- Administrators of Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities are proposing to relax parts of a nearly 3-month-old outdoor campus smoking ban. State System of Higher Education spokesman Kenn Marshall says the system is proposing the ...
Pa. may ease outdoor smoking ban at universities - Delaware County Daily Times
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Administrators of Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities - including West Chester and Cheyney - are proposing to relax parts of a nearly 3-month-old outdoor campus smoking ban. State System of Higher Education spokesman Kenn ...
Careless smoking may have caused fatal fire in Minneapolis - KARE
MINNEAPOLIS -- A man in Minneapolis has died after being pulled from a burning house early Wednesday morning. An 89-year-old man called 911 at 1:19 a.m. to report his house was on fire at 4125 Portland Avenue South. The man was on the phone with a ...
|
