Quitting Smoking abruptly and High Rate of Lung Cancer

Get it wrote:

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You are the moral busynody control freak who wants to poison others with his own selfish, self destructive addiction.
Go smoke. Smoke everything you have and buy some more and smoke some more. The more you smoke the sooner you will die and the better off the whole world will be since you are someone who has such little control over his addiciton he is willing to see other people die in order to engage in it.

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Sheri wrote:

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John at his best!

KHartman wrote:

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John at his best!

Yeah, he was. My very favorite, http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Although, this one http://www.youtube.com/watch... makes me cry even now when I hear it...so very close to that horrible end and so damned beautiful

Here's one I think you'll enjoy:

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KHartman wrote:

Here's one I think you'll enjoy:
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When it comes to the Beatles, I think of the pure joy they brought to my life...the magnificence of their music, their mark upon society during my coming of age, and their everlasting presence today. Of course I know of George's death from lung cancer, and that saddens me. John's senseless murder and its anniversary is approaching. Paul, I have heard, has asked to serenade Michelle Obama at the Innauguration...very sweet. Ringo has demanded that his fans stop writing him letters. As for smoking, I don't know if either Paul or Ringo does so any longer, but I suspect that Paul is still puffing weed. K, I have always enjoyed our break from fighting in discussions of music, and this was nice. I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving and that the coming holiday season will be joyous for you. Take care. We have more in common than we have to fight about.

My mum was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, which has also spread to her brain and bones. She doesn't have much time left with us and is only 63. She quit smoking 1 month before she was diagnosed. Did this cause the cancer? No. She's had it easily for the last year WHILST she still smoked. Why did she quit smoking? Because her cough had got unbearable. She had been coughing for years. Why did she go to the doctors and find out she had lung cancer? Because she collapsed due to the metestases in her brain and she thought she had had a stroke. If only eh! I smoke too. Only a couple a day. But you know what? I won't be fooling myself that quitting will give me lung cancer or waiting until I'm like my mum to wish I'd quit. When you've witnessed the pain in your mothers eyes that she has a terminal illness caused by smoking and asks you to stop do you really think you might think 'best not in case it causes lung cancer'?no, only if I want to fool myself to justify inhaling poison!

Sheri wrote:

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My friends with cancer were all non-smokers. One died of melanoma at 32. Another died of pancreatic cancer at 64. One other friend is 52 and he is currently ill with pancreatic cancer. The people I know with lung cancer were mere acquaintances, not close friends. One was a third cousin who quit smoking a year before he died. His wife said that she wished she had never made him quit since he did not enjoy that last year before he died. A second cousin by marriage contacted lung cancer within a year of quitting smoking. He did not die though. Thirty years later at age 82, he died of brain cancer. A third person I knew of through a good friend of mine. He was her brother-in-law and he quit smoking a little over a year before he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died shortly thereafter. So, asshole, neither the friends I know who were non-smokers nor the acquaintances that I had who all died of cancer will be able to testify about their illnesses because they are DEAD. You will be dead someday also, and for all your faith in scientific studies, you will be taking the same dirt nap that awaits us all.
You look particularly stupid because you did not read my post. Had you done that, you would have seen that I agreed that smokers ready to quit should taper off from smoking rather than quit cold....just in case this "sciencey" article is correct in its assumptions. You are an ASSHOLE

This is an old thread, but I did just stumble upon it.

Sheri's "study" and her assertions are nothing more than a denial-based rationalization for continued smoking (most likely her own).

To assert, as she does, that there is a causal effect between abrupt cessation of smoking and the rapid onset of cancer is both presumptuous and ludicrous. First, it must be proven that the study's patients would NOT have otherwise developed lung cancer had it not been for their abrupt (i.e.'cold turkey') cessation. This, conveniently, can not be proven.

This was not a "science"-based study. It was pure conjecture based on a sparse number of facts that were connected together with a Sharpie.

Sheri, to put it politely, is an idiot and is merely using some sort of quackery to justify her FEAR of quitting cold turkey.

Nicotine is the most highly addictive drug on the face of the planet. As long as it is being introduced into your system - either through smoking or NRT products - you will remain addicted and your body will continue to crave more. Whether you smoke 5 packs a day or 2 a day, the addiction to the nicotine continues to exist.

There are people who have never smoked in their lives who are addicted to Nicorette gum. That's because it contains nicotine and nicotine is addictive.

The more you satisfy the addictions cravings - whether you do it 100 times a day or twice a day - the cravings will NEVER cease.

You can not "wean" yourself off of nicotine by ingesting less of it or ingesting it in different forms (i.e. NRT) anymore than you can "wean" yourself off of heroin by shooting up less often.

Seriously, Sheri... keep your "sciencey" articles to yourself. I pity you.

smoking kills, in the UK you cant smoke in the workplace including work vehicles, in pubs bars, or restarants, in fact anywhere where the public are enclosed. im 53 and smoked for 40 years and loved it, but my daughter hated it and begged me to quit so 6 weeks ago i did cold turkey, it waant easy but i have quit and im in control. so i feel good, my daughter is happy and im richer. i estimate at £6.50 for 20 cigs i have saved aprox £45.00 per week and in 6 weeks that makes £270.00 i dont know how much ciggies cost in the U.S. but thats quite a saving in my eyes.

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*about

certainly a possibility that they stop because they thing something is not right...

Look out for swedish snus, in my opinion is the relatively safest way to enjoy tobacco....