The nutritional aspect of our lives is something we began to look more seriously at "after" taking up vaping and quitting smoking over three years ago. It is my belief that there is a fixed to fail mindset in much of the human population that is self destructive and a large part of it is driven through the "I smoke so I am gonna die" that is deeply rooted in our brains.
Getting past that it has been like seeing a new possible horizon that has changed many aspects of our lives including our outlook on near and long term health. We (My Wife, Daughter and I) began eating better foods and less of it. Sure it does cost a little more and it can at times be more of a challenge to decide what to prepare considering we have been doing this for only a few years while our old ways have been ingrained over half a century. Some things we have done to help offset this are keeping chickens for eggs and eventually meat and gardening. This is even more effort and the savings are not always apparent, also not everyone is in a position to even think about going this direction where we are fortunate with a mild climate, our own well for inexpensive water and room to do these things. We hope that we will be able to grow and produce enough abundance beyond our own needs to help others in an affordable way to have access to healthy fresh foods. In the last two years we have lost just about a third of our combined body weight and our overall health continues to improve.
The point is though that being a smoker makes the idea of a better future moot so why bother, once you see the possibility of that better future you can always find small ways to improve on the direction you are going like maybe having a glass of water with that pizza instead of soda, two slices that leave you satisfied instead of four and ready for a nap. I wish everyone the best and have high hopes that your own success in quitting smoking spreads to encourage improvements in all aspects of your lives.
for you younger folks i would like to add as one ages
so does ones outlook on life in general.
being near 60 as ones friends and aquaintenses start
passing away with unnerving frequency one observes
the tendency for some of them just to resign themselves
to their fate. when one is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer
no mater what the cause quitting smoking or drinking
becomes a moot issue.
i knew a person who had a lump removed from his neck.
it turned out to be a tumor that although not one of the
more dangerous forms of cancer it was of a type that
grew very fast and aggressively. it was removed and he received
chemo therapy with an apparent good outcome.
a year later it returned very aggressively but still treatable
and having a good reason to believe it would result in another
good outcome. he decided for whatever reason he couldn't go
through surgery and chemo again. understand what i'm saying.
he didn't die of cancer. the cancer killed him by strangulation.
my point is as you get older concerns about your health become
center stage an its how you deal with the that counts.
i am totally confident that vaping is as close to harmless as it
can get. i can foresee no potential for harm that can't be addressed
with no more than adjusting,adding or,illuminating ingredients.
that is why younger people have to stop vasillating about
on a perceived potential of harm that isn't evident now or
likely to be in the future.the powers that be don't want or need
vaping. they want to see it gone. don't allow them to take it
from you. i may have damaged myself to much after 38 years
of smoking for it to make any real difference in my final outcome
but you younger folks have that in your grasp. don't drop the ball.
regards
mike
