Do you SMOKE?
By mchavez11
@mchavez11 (1406)
Philippines
September 3, 2008 4:57am CST
Do you still smoke once in a while or more frequently than brushing your teeth? If you're a smoker will you continue to smoke cigarettes until the end of you life? If you are a non smoker, have you ever tried it and will you ever smoke again?
It haunts me nowadays that even us knowing that there's global warming we still continue to do the bad habits that we got used to just by thinking that I'm just a tiny fraction from contributing to global warming. Though we are not fully aware that if we sum up all the people who does the bad habits that destroys the world, it gives stronger impact just the same as tons of vehicles that produces carbon dioxide that pollutes the air. I was once a smoker too but when I finally started a family and began to have two sons I decided to finally quit smoking because I still think and feel that they have the right to stay in a better and safer world. We should always remember that the earth is our home...and we MUST take care of it for us and for the coming generations.
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35 responses
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
4 Sep 08
Yes I do smoke and have for over 40 years. I quit for a year then started again. I am lucky enough to have no repercussions from smoking. My breathing and lungs are normal and I have this checked every 6 months. So at this point I have no intentions of quiting.
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@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Okay but dont wait for it to ruin your health. Take care. thanks and happy posting.
@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
4 Sep 08
Before in my high school life & before merried i will accept that im smoker, but since then stop smoking, not only because i get merried but it will be good to me, stop smoking is not been easy but you need to try on till you quit.
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@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
yeah quitting is the key and not doing it at all is everything. Thanks.
@austere (2812)
• Philippines
3 Sep 08
yes i do..
but i only smoke a stick or two a day..sometimes, i dont smoke in a week's time especially when i am not feeling okay.. i understand your concern about smoking.. guess i will really have to cut out my smoking habits, i dont find anything good with it, but i still smoke, because i always spend my breaks with my officemates who smokes.
but i only smoke a stick or two a day..sometimes, i dont smoke in a week's time especially when i am not feeling okay.. i understand your concern about smoking.. guess i will really have to cut out my smoking habits, i dont find anything good with it, but i still smoke, because i always spend my breaks with my officemates who smokes. @mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
4 Sep 08
Well eventually you will quit to. Your opinion will make you start to realize that enough is enough and you're a lot cooler when you don't smoke compared to you officemates who does. Good luck. Happy posting.
@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
10 Sep 08
i never smoked, and it never interested. but i use incense...
@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
11 Sep 08
u just light a stick and put it in a box or it holder, and it smokes itself, giving out odor.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Wow, never smoked. Good for you. I'd like to try incense though. How do you do it?
@dragonstar1 (330)
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4 Sep 08
I am a smoker. I don't smoke very much in comparision to many people I know.
I don't advocate starting in the first place that's for sure.
I do think I will probably continue to smoke (little and often).
I have been smoking around half of my life so far.
I have a concern that if I stop after such a length of time, that as my lungs clear after spending years with a coating on them that they will be some what raw and exposed initially.
The air now contains so many pollutants that are damaging to us. In an area such as mine the quantities of asbestos in the air are alarming.
So my worry is that during the period of my lungs recovering they will absorb these and inturn they will be far more detrimental to my health whether immediately or in the long run, than to continue smoking.
Anyone know any different? I'd be happy to hear and mayb then I could give it up with confidence.
@dragonstar1 (330)
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12 Sep 08
I truely beleive in the natural approach, I think if anyone is going to medicate my body it is up to me as a human being to decide.
Thanks for your comments, do pineapple have something in it to help?
I vaguely remember someone recommending it for calming properties?
@dragonstar1 (330)
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13 Sep 08
Do you have any idea if that's why pineapple works?
How's your Dad now?
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Simple as deciding to quit once and for all. Start drinking pineapple juice becaus that's what my chain smoker dad did and it worked. Exercise and meditate a lot. Calm all your senses..its the best way to cure sickness compared to medicines that these pharmaceuticals produce. Nature is the best cure for all our sickness.
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
3 Sep 08
no! i dont smoke.i even have 5 brothers but only one bro is smoking.yes you are right we should care the next generation coz the next generation is our kids but other people dont care about it.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Hats off man. I envy you. Keep it up and have a more healthy life. Its good for you and for the environment.
@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
4 Sep 08
I do smoke before. But not really a chain-smoker. I was just influenced by my co-workers. But I already stopped since I stopped working in that office as well. I am now into clean living. Exercise, healthy foods, & all those healthy stuff thing.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
I'm sure that will make you stronger and you will a lot better. Thanks and happy posting.
@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
4 Sep 08
I've never tried smoking and certainly never plan to either. Its a nasty habit and I'm glad its one I never took up. I wish they would outlaw it completely. Because even second hand smoke does so much damage. I know, because my lungs were damaged by second hand smoke from my parents. I'm 49 and have severe asthma with COPD and use oxygen frequently now. Docs say my lungs are this way because of the air I breathed during my childhood. And as if that isn't bad enough I lost my grandmother, my father in law, and last year my Mom to lung cancer.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Dont try it at all its not worth it. All there is to it is nothing but awful smoke and taste. I regret doing it though.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
second hand smoke is deadly. Wild. Smokers just don't care at all. Thanks to some cities here in the Philippines like Makati our own New York. They started banning smoking inside the malls and bars. Cool.
@agent_alice (448)
• Philippines
4 Sep 08
I don't smoke, and I won't try. I don't like the smell of the smoke.
I'm allergic to it. It makes me cough.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
You are blessed with that Alice. Have a great day. Happy posting.
@allurejan (197)
• United States
4 Sep 08
I don't smoke because I know it is bad for the health. But some members of the family smoke. I keep on reminding them to quit from smoking slowly.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Cool. Keep on persuading them. It will eventually work and you will create a good impact on saving them and our environment. It for our own good. Thanks and happy posting.
@jelamar (44)
• Philippines
4 Sep 08
My husband smokes a lot!!! I don't what would they get from smoking!!! My goodness! I don't know what benefits would he got from smoking... I always remind him that he should take care of himself but it is still useless.. I think he wants to die early... For you guys who haven't try smoking, think a hundred or even a million times b4 you try it...
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Im sure he will quit. If not for himself, for you and your children. Thanks and happy posting.
@dorisday1971 (5657)
• Philippines
4 Sep 08
No, I don't. It's not good for my health. i have tried smoking when I was younger and it was with the permission of my chain smoker father and it was just to kill my curiosity why my father and other people smoke. But it was not good.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Great move.. Curiousity seems a good thing to try it all and knowing the result is the best thing to realize. Happy posting. Thanks.
@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
4 Sep 08
I never used 2 smoke but recently I started 2. I think it's because all my freinds smoke n I been stressed so one day I asked a friend 2 try it n then every now n then ill have a smoke. I don't smoke every day maybe like 1 or 2 times a week ill have one....But I havent smoked in 2 weeks trying 2 quit permanately its not good espec cuz I have a heart condition.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Talk about peer pressure but I'm glad you have not smoked for a long time like 2 weeks. It just shows that you are not a smoker which is actually great because its really not in your system. Thanks. Have a great day.
@muneyuki04 (343)
• Philippines
4 Sep 08
i didnt attemp to smoke once!...cause i know what is the effect of that!..
@k1virus1978 (543)
• Singapore
4 Sep 08
I used to be a smoker, and I'm free from this poison addiction. It's hard for a person to quit, well i had a hard time quitting but with a mind of self determination i had done it. Last time whenever it try to start again i had this feeling of gross over it when i had one, it's unbearable...... Geez........ For those smokers, be firm to quit don't lose your determination to addictions.
@mchavez11 (1406)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
Yeah I totally agree. Determination is the key. thanks. Good luck.
