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A Doctor’s Aggressive Stance Against Cigarettes

StopSmokingCoach — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:37:19 +0000

In Poland, about 8 million out of the 38 million populations are smokers. Smoking related disease claim over 60000 poles each year and recently a Polish cancer specialist proposed cigarette boxes adorn pictures of tumor. The doctor is hopeful that the pictures will deter people from smoking.

“A picture speaks a thousand words”, perhaps it has a chance of having success. If I were still a smoker, I don’t think I would be comfortable smoking out of a box showing tumors which can actually be developing in my body as I smoke the box away. Some things you just never get used to and people are easily troubled by graphic images. Visual cue tends to take priority in humans and the effect it has on us can be profound.

If our government was not responsible enough to ban such an addictive and lethal product (if you could call it that) in the first place, it may be time that we do something about it ourselves. If you are reading this article you most likely own a computer and you are just as likely to own a printer. Do a Google image search on tumor pictures, print one and slide it between the cigarette box and the plastic covering it. Make sure you always carry your cigarette box with the picture slid in it and use it as an additional motivational tool. As some pictures may be too graphic for some of our readers, unfortunately we cannot provide you with the pictures on this site. Please be aware that Google images will return many graphic images when you do any query including the word tumor.

Remember, most people fail many times over before they successfully give up smoking. You have to use every tool available at your disposal to aid you in quitting smoking. Generally people who have success giving up smoking tend to have a solid plan before they try quitting. Don’t give up just because you may have failed a few times, what matter is that you are still trying. Continue with “Third Hand Smoke”.

50-50 Chance of Survival

StopSmokingCoach — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:12:58 +0000

A Russian roulette would give you about 5 in 6 survival rates, would you like to guess what kind of odds you are playing with smoking cigarettes? The answer is 1 in 2, that’s right your classic 50-50 survival chance. Tobacco related disease kill 1 out of every 2 smokers.

It’s amazing how people could care less about what could happen to them in 10 to 20 years down the road even if it involved death. No one in their right mind would light another cigarette if it meant they would have a 50-50 chance at getting cancer the next day. And yet if it’s 10 or 20 years in the future the odds start to look pretty good to smokers. How does that make sense to you? Are assuming your life would be less precious 10 years down road? Life is life, and elderliness does not make life any less special than youthfulness. In fact, I would argue in a personal manner that we would have more reasons to live as we age. For most of us, the longer we live, the more we’ve loved and therefore there’s more to love. The people we love make our lives worth living and we have a responsibility to them, to be with them and love them for as long as our natural lives allow us.

The Scottish actor Ewan McGregor quit smoking in 2007. He admitted the thought of explaining to his kids he was dying because he took his health for granted was enough to have him quit smoking. Now I’m not saying you should quit smoking because a Hollywood star has done it. But he displayed a commendable act as a father, an example we can all follow for our own reasons.

If one chamber of a revolver was loaded with a dud bullet and you could play Russian roulette safely for the time being. The only catch being if the dud hits, you have to shoot yourself in the head exactly 10 years future. Would you do it? I don’t think I need to explain to you that you are playing with even scarier odds if you do not stop smoking. Continue with “A Doctor’s Aggressive Stance Against Cigarettes“.