Smoking Cessation
November 7th, 2007 by TracySeriously, STOP SMOKING right now!! Do you have any idea how many disorders it can cause. I think if you did, you would have stopped a long time ago.
As you know, I’m a nursing student at UW-Milwaukee. That is sort of beside the point. I just want to share with you that EVERY single day (pretty much) we learn about some disorder, disease, etc. that is exacerbated by smoking! Not even kidding. I know I am shocked and I don’t smoke.
Just trying to watch out for you guys. Here are a few things that you may not know about, but smoking contributes to all of them and a million more!
*aneurysms and atherosclerosis
*Buerger’s disease (you can lose limbs because your peripheral arteries become occluded and the limb dies) Primary cause….you guessed it smoking
* hypertension
* and of course ALL kinds of cancers
Okay. Now, lemme tell you a little of the why. Of course you have heard that smoking is a carcinogen (cancer causing agent), but the smoke contains free radicals. These free radicals are what screw all your shit UP! They damage cells and cause mutations in DNA. Uh huh.
That is my health tip for the day. STOP SMOKING!!
Visit these sites if you want more information on quitting or other disorders:
NIH
Smoking Cessation
AHA
Web MD
I get that you have to want to quit before any of this will matter, but at least you will be well informed about what you are doing to your body. And if this doesn’t at least make you think about quitting, I don’t think anything will.
Take care of yourselves, yo!
November 7th, 2007 at 10:20 am
You forgot to mention that smoking makes you ugly and smelly. Who wants to be an ugly, stinky amputee who’s covered in tumors? Eww!
November 7th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Now that is HAWT!! I think you just described my dream man!!
November 7th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I KNOW I’ve seen some people looking like that down at the bar the last time that we were out in your little town, there.
November 7th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Everybody knows that smoking is unhealthy. What smokers don’t yet see is how dirty and repulsive their smoking is. Expelling waste products from your body is disgusting to others when they are forced to put up with it. It may be farting, picking your nose, or smoking your cigarette. It’s all disgusting to others. Keep it to yourself smokers, learn to respect other people or move to Afghanistan or someplace. America doesn’t want cigarette smokers around.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Absolutely! It is repulsive and dirty. Oh and no one wants to breathe their waste!
November 8th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
francis you little shit. first of all, some smokers (such as me) are VERY conscientious about where they smoke and who they smoke around. i even go so far as to stand downwind of a non-smoker whenever possible. true, there are smokers out there that have a complete lack of respect for other people but that’s true about any group of americans. and speaking of americans, it sounds as though you are truly one hell of an american. you obviously embody what america stands for. you know, the whole FREEDOM bit, or the bring us your poor, your needy bit. seems to me that the men who wrote those things probably wouldn’t CONDEMN others because of an addiction or problem that they have. they probably would open their arms to them and try to help. wouldn’t they? or am i being simplistic? kinda like saying that all smokers are unwelcome in america and should move to a third world country. you must just bleed red, white, and blue don’t you? kinda like all of our soldiers fighting overseas for us right now. maybe you should send a mass email to all of them to inform them that if they smoke they may as well stay over there since they aren’t wanted here… that’d be the easiest way to get rid of a bunch of unamerican, repulsive, good for nothing, leach on the system smokers. right?
enjoy your day.