After reading a post from a new member saying he promised his friend dying of lung cancer that he/she would quit smoking, and is tempted to go buy a pack of smokes, I am compelled to write my own story similar to this.
My dear friend is now dying from lung cancer. She was basically a life long smoker. She battled lung cancer several years ago, losing half of one of her lungs. Then she got throat cancer from getting treatments for the lung cancer. Now she has lung cancer again, in both of her lungs AND brain cancer. They started a treatment regimen only to find that she cant survive the treatments and she wont survive this bout of cancer. They cannot operate at all and she cant survive treatments. This has been going on since October 2010. To say it has been hell would be one of the greatest understatements of all time.
This was a huge wake up call for me... HUGE. To watch someone you love waste away so slowly and painfully is torturous and agonizing. To KNOW that it is due to smoking those God-forsaken tobacco cigarettes is haunting and nightmare inducing. I smoked for 28 years, that is over half of my life. What praytell has those evil sticks done to me that has yet to show up or rear its ugly head? What MORE damage was done to me when they added that RIP strip to my cigarettes? I definitely noticed increased trouble breathing after they added them among a few other things. Can any of that be offset by my quitting smoking? Is it too late? Will I worry about this for the rest of my life?
Now, I'm not saying that I am joining the fanatical anti-smoking crowd, but I now KNOW the true evils of cigarettes and will do whatever I can to keep people I care about from smoking. Why in the hell was I so stubborn and closed-minded to the facts about smoking the whole 28 years I was smoking? It makes me angry in hindsite. Angry at myself, and angry at BT for lying and doing everything they can to make them sooooooooo addictive and full of poisons, and why are there no healthy tobaccos? Peoples have been smoking tobacco for ages without all of these chemicals and poisons, why can we not have that now??
Of course these questions are not asked to be answered, it more of just a venting for me. I'm angry about smoking and all of the horrible and tragic damage it does to all those who smoke and is right now doing to my dear friend. For anyone who thinks they cant quit smoking.. open your mind and go look at pictures of lungs that have smoked for decades, and then ask yourself if it's really what you want. For truly, you dont want to witness someone you love, or yourself dying from this addiction to smoking tobacco. Remember the commercial that was on the TV years ago of the old lady with the hole in her throat because he had no voicebox left due to smoking, yet.. continued to smoke thru that hole in her neck YouTube - Woman Smokes Cigarette Through Hole in Her Neck - WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT. Be bigger than the addiction the next time you think you want to reach for a cigarette and at the very least replace the tobacco with vaping. Maybe, just maybe it wont be too late.
My dear friend is now dying from lung cancer. She was basically a life long smoker. She battled lung cancer several years ago, losing half of one of her lungs. Then she got throat cancer from getting treatments for the lung cancer. Now she has lung cancer again, in both of her lungs AND brain cancer. They started a treatment regimen only to find that she cant survive the treatments and she wont survive this bout of cancer. They cannot operate at all and she cant survive treatments. This has been going on since October 2010. To say it has been hell would be one of the greatest understatements of all time.
This was a huge wake up call for me... HUGE. To watch someone you love waste away so slowly and painfully is torturous and agonizing. To KNOW that it is due to smoking those God-forsaken tobacco cigarettes is haunting and nightmare inducing. I smoked for 28 years, that is over half of my life. What praytell has those evil sticks done to me that has yet to show up or rear its ugly head? What MORE damage was done to me when they added that RIP strip to my cigarettes? I definitely noticed increased trouble breathing after they added them among a few other things. Can any of that be offset by my quitting smoking? Is it too late? Will I worry about this for the rest of my life?
Now, I'm not saying that I am joining the fanatical anti-smoking crowd, but I now KNOW the true evils of cigarettes and will do whatever I can to keep people I care about from smoking. Why in the hell was I so stubborn and closed-minded to the facts about smoking the whole 28 years I was smoking? It makes me angry in hindsite. Angry at myself, and angry at BT for lying and doing everything they can to make them sooooooooo addictive and full of poisons, and why are there no healthy tobaccos? Peoples have been smoking tobacco for ages without all of these chemicals and poisons, why can we not have that now??
Of course these questions are not asked to be answered, it more of just a venting for me. I'm angry about smoking and all of the horrible and tragic damage it does to all those who smoke and is right now doing to my dear friend. For anyone who thinks they cant quit smoking.. open your mind and go look at pictures of lungs that have smoked for decades, and then ask yourself if it's really what you want. For truly, you dont want to witness someone you love, or yourself dying from this addiction to smoking tobacco. Remember the commercial that was on the TV years ago of the old lady with the hole in her throat because he had no voicebox left due to smoking, yet.. continued to smoke thru that hole in her neck YouTube - Woman Smokes Cigarette Through Hole in Her Neck - WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT. Be bigger than the addiction the next time you think you want to reach for a cigarette and at the very least replace the tobacco with vaping. Maybe, just maybe it wont be too late.
