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on the matter of smoking
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Did anyone see the tonight programme the other day where they had Jodie Marsh, Alex Best, and Suranna Jones on the show talking about how they are smokers but want to give up, they talked about why they do it, how long they have done it etc. They talked about rememdies to getting you to give up, they mentioned the lieks of the Alan Carr method, for which it did not work for 2 of the said above people, but worked for one of them.
I also have a question to the smokers on here :
Who here smokes? If you do, and saw this program did it make you realise how bad it was for you and make you want to stop? Why do you smoke when you know how bad it is for you, and knowing your getting no advantage from it, only negatives?
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I also have a question to the smokers on here :
Who here smokes? If you do, and saw this program did it make you realise how bad it was for you and make you want to stop? Why do you smoke when you know how bad it is for you, and knowing your getting no advantage from it, only negatives?
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I still smoke joints though..but I figure at least it's something, eh?
Ilora x
:yes: same here.
Thats fantastic, and it seems to have sailed way above the heads of the others. V. Funny mate.
Smoking? Hmm, I did for a while when I was about 17, then quit cold turkey, it was a foul experience so I've never started again.
Okay i didn't see the program so i'll not debate the program but answer your questions anyway
It's rather like saying why do people drive at 110mph down a motorway when they know it's more dangerous? Why does someone go down the pub and binge drink 12 pints of lager when they know it's going to mutilate their liver? Why do people do drugs when they know it's going to affect their health and minds? Why do people gamble their lives away by placing bets of £10,000?
Unfortunately it's an addiction, one which the majority of us would like to stop but find it nigh on impossible to. Without ever having had this addiction it is very hard to explain what it feels like not having a fag and the gut wrenching cravings you get for one.
I, as with most smokers, am well aware of the dangers of smoking, just quitting feels impossible.
I did not see this program in particular, but I have seen many different types of media which present the dangers of smoking and the huge risk it has on health. Smoking addiction is very strong, it is very hard to describe the cravings when you don't have a cigarette. It all becomes part of a routine, eg a fag in the morning or on your breaks at work. This causes a stronger and stronger psychological addiction to be built which is very difficult to break.
Do you not do anything that is determined as bad for you? Because you must be an angel then eh !
Have you ever tried telling a 13 year old about health risks? The majority of 13 year olds won't listen because to them old age or dying is light years away. At such a young age it's hard to be sensible and say no to some of the bad things in life because you feel indestructible.
I'm not giving the above as an excuse for my starting smoking it's just to try and make you understand.
Well i'd seen my dad smoke when i was little, and both of my older brothers smoke, well one doesnt anymore. I think it was more social smoking with mates and then got addictive.
I'm no "angel" like that. I have done things that I knew were bad, but if something is known to be addictive it's not something that I ever would do, if I was older than 10. I simply haven't managed to understand how people who start smoking think. If you say "dying is too far away" it doesn't make sense, because it's addictive and "far away" will be coming closer with each day, and as long as you keep smoking it will be harder to stop. You knew that, so what? Did you think you had a stronger will than all those people who die of lung cancer every year and you'd be able to stop before you became so addicted?
Again, sorry if I appear to be attacking you, but that's just my way of writing/talking. I just want to understand.
Once it has taken root, the addiction only gets stronger. Trying to quit results in cravings at times when you would normally have a fag, if you see someone in the room or on tv smoking a fag (going down the pub is torture) or if you're bored and you would want to smoke a fag, you can't.
Some people are better at supressing these cravings than others. I have an addictive personality anyway, so quittings going to be difficult, but I feel I must at somepoint in my early adult life.
You ever tried telling a headstrong teenager that somethings bad for them. It's a simple case of "nope it will never happen to me". Only the sensible ones listen.
You don't think of this part believe me. There's a very small part of you that thinks about the bad side but then the rest gets caught up in the addiction and by that point it's too late.
I do.
I know how bad it is for me.
I smoke because I like the rush.
We will all die anyway, even if we don't smoke. So why should smoking related death worry me?
The advantage (apart from the rush) is that my chances of Alzheimer's reduces dramtically. Oh, and it guarantees some space in pubs
yeah, cause by the age that there is the greatest risk of alzheimers, half of you smokers will already be dead, from some godawful respiratory disease. :P
There is that (and I have cracked that one myself) by the nicotine adicted brain is less likely to be affected by alzheimer's. It a statisical anomaly and no-one has managed to explain why, yet.