What Are Some Really Good Reasons To Stop Smoking?
i just quit 2 days ago and i was wanting to get a list of reasons to stop smoking to carry with me when i have an urge to smoke. can you guys help me?
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June 24th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Just imagine your children and loved one’s at your bedside when you are in end stage lung failure when the doctor comes in the room and announces that you have two weeks to live. Do you think you can handle the looks on their faces? Can you handle watching them watch you slowly sufficate and die? I don’t know what it’s like to be the one in the bed gasping for breath but I do know what it’s like to be one of the people at the person’s bedside. This is what is happening to my dad right now. Thankfully God wasn’t done with him on earth yet and we have had him around for 9 months longer than the doctors said we would. But it is very bittersweet. On one hand we are so thankful to still have our dad with us but on the other it is one of the hardest things to have to watch someone you love suffer through this and there isn’t a damn thing you can do for him. He has to live in a nursing home now. Thankfully we found him one that is rated one of the top one’s in the country and is like living at a luxury hotel but it still isn’t home. The lack of oxygen causes him to forget things (sometimes even us, his 4 children). He gets confused, he gets mad and yells (he has always been a very sweet, kind soft spoken man). He sometimes thinks that his relatives that have already passed are in his room with him. One day he looked straight into my sisters eyes and asked where his “Rosa” (her name is Rosalee and Rosa is what he calls her) is. She said to him that she was right there and it took him about 10 minutes to realize that it was really her. So, is that enough or do I have to go on about how we have to help him walk to the bathroom and how he has to be bathed by his nurses and how we have to stay away from him for weeks sometimes if we get so much as a sniffle because if he gets any kind of sickness it could kill him with in days. I hope this has been enough to convince you that you have made the right decision to quit and to keep your motivation up. I pray for you that you have the willpower and strength to continue not smoking. Good for you and good luck
June 24th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Firstly well done on giving up the weed.
Reasons to be happy you’ve stopped – you’re likely to live a bit longer, breath better, your skin will get clearer and start to look younger, your lungs will start to repair themselves.
Chances of lung cancer go down.
A good incentive to keep of the smoking is to go to the doctors clinic or the library or internet and ask for pictures of diseased lungs.
My husband gave up after seeing both my parents die from lung cancer, a really big incentive.
Good luck and keep it going.
June 24th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
just type cigarrette smoking side effects and click google images yu will find amazing pics of disfigured lungs, ppl with mouth cancer which will make yu puke, ppl with throat cancer etc.. the list goes.. if those pics wont make yu quit.. then nothing will…
June 24th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Do you have children? Do you want children? Do you have people that you love, that you don’t want to have to see you waste away on oxygen? Maybe carry a picture of an oxygen tank.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
smoking will make you loose something you love like younger skin, pretty lip, fresh breath, healthy lung, and money to buy.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Clear and Simple: Your Health and the people around you !
by smoking your not only hurting yourself but the people around you as they get a percent of what your smoking when you blow out the smoke !
June 25th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Living longer. Being kind to non smokers so we don’t get cancer from second hand smoke.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:30 am
your HEALTH depends on it