Thank you everyone who is stopping smoking cigarettes today and tomorrow. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.
My mother smoked for 65 years or so.
She stopped a few years ago and never looked back.
Her voice has returned to pretty, her skin feels better, she stopped coughing every morning and every night.
She feels the need to take fewer vitamins.
She has a superior sense of scent.
Nothing she owns wreaks of ashtray. She was particular about where she smoked, but still, that smoke gets in your clothes and hair.
She doesn't even miss it. Not at all.
She replaced smoking with drinking more water and taking deep breaths more often.
I know others who began knitting. That is particularly sexy when a man starts knitting rather than smoking, with his children in mind.
I know that smoking allows one to take a 3-7 minute pause in the day to breathe in deeply and let it go....over and over.
You can do that without the cigarette.
It's ok to step away from the scene and just breathe- breathe as deeply as if you were inhaling smoke.
No one will think you are weird for that. They will think you are a hero for fighting the addiction- or they are not worthy of your presence. You may choose to edit some of the people from your life along with those little phallic symbols that have enslaved you. It's OK, not to worry, you wont really miss them anymore you would miss a fly.
Some people take the money saved from cigarettes and buy books.
Now your step away from the scene to breathe can include falling into a good book for a chapter....
The money saved, the skin renewed, the sense of smell returned full force.
Why wouldn't you quit?
As for life extension, yes, living long enough to be there for your grandkids (they might need you), grand niece and nephews is great. But, it's not about expectancy so much as it is about quality of life. Please trust me, not being able to breathe easily is hell. One needs to breathe easily to be able to stand, walk, use the bathroom, lift a fork or glass, chew, swallow water, lay down, sleep....all of those simple things you want to take for granted become incredible feats, without easy breathing. That man you may have seen in the anti-smoking PSA is in a wheelchair, not because he lost his legs in war, not because of spinal injury, but because without enough oxygen going in and out of the lungs- a human just can't stand.
We can't stand it.
Regarding the father of her child, a dear one said, "Oh no, he is European, he wont ever quit".
Really? How effed up is that? To place blame on an entire continent, an entire population? To dismiss a plea like that is horrid. Meanwhile, his daughter will associate that smell of ashtray with a loved one. She will be 80% more likely to smoke cigarettes....80% more likely to cough up a lugey....get sore throats...stink.
It's a trailer thing too, but you don't hear people saying, "Oh no, she just couldn't betray the trailer park by being as healthy as she could be" do you....?
I despise when people I care about smoke and people I don't know as well. I know you can stop, I know what it is to suffocate and I know cigarette's being burned in our environment causes more asthma and
emphysema in the world we share.
It is hell to not be able to breathe easily. Please take my word on that.
Cigarette smoking causes suffering.
Smoking is not allowed on any set I run. As a matter of fact, if you do smoke, you outta make it as invisible as possible. Smoking in the vicinity of others is major points against you when people are crewing up. Smoking around people who recently quit means you are providing a trigger....guess who's side I'm on- yep, the person who stopped smoking get's the space- not you and your smelly addiction.
Fight it- stop it now. Man up, Woman up.
Please have the courage to stop.
And if you have stopped
THANK YOU!
My mother smoked for 65 years or so.
She stopped a few years ago and never looked back.
Her voice has returned to pretty, her skin feels better, she stopped coughing every morning and every night.
She feels the need to take fewer vitamins.
She has a superior sense of scent.
Nothing she owns wreaks of ashtray. She was particular about where she smoked, but still, that smoke gets in your clothes and hair.
She doesn't even miss it. Not at all.
She replaced smoking with drinking more water and taking deep breaths more often.
I know others who began knitting. That is particularly sexy when a man starts knitting rather than smoking, with his children in mind.
I know that smoking allows one to take a 3-7 minute pause in the day to breathe in deeply and let it go....over and over.
You can do that without the cigarette.
It's ok to step away from the scene and just breathe- breathe as deeply as if you were inhaling smoke.
No one will think you are weird for that. They will think you are a hero for fighting the addiction- or they are not worthy of your presence. You may choose to edit some of the people from your life along with those little phallic symbols that have enslaved you. It's OK, not to worry, you wont really miss them anymore you would miss a fly.
Some people take the money saved from cigarettes and buy books.
Now your step away from the scene to breathe can include falling into a good book for a chapter....
The money saved, the skin renewed, the sense of smell returned full force.
Why wouldn't you quit?
As for life extension, yes, living long enough to be there for your grandkids (they might need you), grand niece and nephews is great. But, it's not about expectancy so much as it is about quality of life. Please trust me, not being able to breathe easily is hell. One needs to breathe easily to be able to stand, walk, use the bathroom, lift a fork or glass, chew, swallow water, lay down, sleep....all of those simple things you want to take for granted become incredible feats, without easy breathing. That man you may have seen in the anti-smoking PSA is in a wheelchair, not because he lost his legs in war, not because of spinal injury, but because without enough oxygen going in and out of the lungs- a human just can't stand.
We can't stand it.
Regarding the father of her child, a dear one said, "Oh no, he is European, he wont ever quit".
Really? How effed up is that? To place blame on an entire continent, an entire population? To dismiss a plea like that is horrid. Meanwhile, his daughter will associate that smell of ashtray with a loved one. She will be 80% more likely to smoke cigarettes....80% more likely to cough up a lugey....get sore throats...stink.
It's a trailer thing too, but you don't hear people saying, "Oh no, she just couldn't betray the trailer park by being as healthy as she could be" do you....?
I despise when people I care about smoke and people I don't know as well. I know you can stop, I know what it is to suffocate and I know cigarette's being burned in our environment causes more asthma and
emphysema in the world we share.
It is hell to not be able to breathe easily. Please take my word on that.
Cigarette smoking causes suffering.
Smoking is not allowed on any set I run. As a matter of fact, if you do smoke, you outta make it as invisible as possible. Smoking in the vicinity of others is major points against you when people are crewing up. Smoking around people who recently quit means you are providing a trigger....guess who's side I'm on- yep, the person who stopped smoking get's the space- not you and your smelly addiction.
Fight it- stop it now. Man up, Woman up.
Please have the courage to stop.
And if you have stopped
THANK YOU!
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