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Kicking tobacco...
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dirtmover
Verified Military
Yeah I had quit when I first got off the trail. But when I got to my unit and it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be I started up again. I thought about quiting while down range but.....well I don't want to get fat eating class 1 driving at a 1/2 a mile an hour doing RCP. Then Copenhagen long cut went on sale at the px 75% off.......that was all she wrote I bought 32 logs lol. I commend all those that quit. May be after this deployment I will give it another go.
December 1st will be one year and seven months of no tobacco for me. There was another thread where I wrote about my thoughts and experiences on it, but it basically boiled down to this: I was sick of smoking, and sick of the "smoking on deployment, quitting in garrison" cycle. What kept me going through those first few weeks was the knowledge that I'd disappoint a bunch of SS members if I messed up. Eventually, it got to the point where I had no desire whatsoever to smoke (I never liked dipping so that wasn't a problem). And so now, barring some incredible misfortune that somehow causes me to smoke, I'll probably be off tobacco for life.
You bunch of quitters... :)
Crazy to see how much the culture has changed, in all aspects, but smoking being a good example. I don't think anyone can dispute smoking/dipping is bad for you, same for drinking coke cola, and driving on a freeway, or a whole host of other things. Only real big difference now, is everyone from a.citizen to the local, state and federal gov, telling what you can and cannot do, where and when you can do it (if they allow you) and in many cases how much.
Yep, home of the free...
Well, studies dating all the way back to 1993 have shown that secondhand smoke is MORE dangerous to the people around a smoker than smoking itself. That's why so many places are smoke-free now - anyone around a smoker is basically taking in all the unfiltered crap that comes along with a cigarette, and their only option is to move out of the area. But if you're in an area (say, a classroom or office) that doesn't have any non-smoking areas around it, you don't really have a choice. It goes beyond the mentality of "Let me do stuff to myself as long as I'm not hurting others", because smokers are not only harming others, the smokers are harming them MORE than themselves.
No argument from me, I don't smoke in my home b/c of my kids. However walking 100+ yards to the "smoking area" or being told I can't smoke in my own vehicle is a bit much IMO.
Anyway I'm not trying to debate the good or bad, it's obviously bad. Just funny how the culture has changed, I can remember being in a platoon where every single soldier to include the PL used a tobacco product.
Anyway I'm not trying to debate the good or bad, it's obviously bad. Just funny how the culture has changed, I can remember being in a platoon where every single soldier to include the PL used a tobacco product.
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I agree, individuals have the right to choose. Outside of my office there used to be a big ash tree with a picnic table underneath where to smokers would huddle together. It was far enough from our front door that we didn't care and close enough for the smokers to be good targets for dry fire drills, through tinted glass of course.
Smoking is the #1 preventable cause of death in the US. If it only affected the smoker, I'd have no objection to people smoking themselves to death. But it's not like you go to bed healthy one night and wake up dead the next morning due to smoking. Most of the smoking-related causes of death are long, painful, and expensive. The cost to the US economy due to smoking-related illnesses and losses of productivity are in the hundreds of billions of dollars. So people like to say, "It's my body, I should be able to do what I want with it," yeah, but people like me are the ones who are going to have to pay to try to maintain that body after you've poisoned it for however many years. Close to 9 million people deal with a smoking-related illness. We're all paying for it. So us non-tobacco addicts have a dog in this fight as well.
To you smokers out there, especially those who are trying to quit, DO IT. Do whatever it takes; cut off relationships, stop activities that "make" you smoke, don't go to places where you're likely to light up. I think I mentioned years ago in this thread that one of my grandfathers and my best friend's father died from smoking. I saw both of them before the end. Dying slowly from one of these diseases is a TERRIBLE way to die. You're cheating yourself and your friends and family out of good, healthy years by being addicted to tobacco. Be stronger than your addiction. Do it right now, not "after the holidays," not "after I finish this last pack," do what it takes to quit today. Do it for yourself, your friends and families, and the rest of us who are going to have to pay for you to die a lingering, painful death after your body and your finances are wrecked by your addiction.
http://www.cancer.org/research/infographicgallery/tobacco-infographic-text-alternative
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/06/14/US-smoking-related-diseases-cost-96B/UPI-56571339724113/
To you smokers out there, especially those who are trying to quit, DO IT. Do whatever it takes; cut off relationships, stop activities that "make" you smoke, don't go to places where you're likely to light up. I think I mentioned years ago in this thread that one of my grandfathers and my best friend's father died from smoking. I saw both of them before the end. Dying slowly from one of these diseases is a TERRIBLE way to die. You're cheating yourself and your friends and family out of good, healthy years by being addicted to tobacco. Be stronger than your addiction. Do it right now, not "after the holidays," not "after I finish this last pack," do what it takes to quit today. Do it for yourself, your friends and families, and the rest of us who are going to have to pay for you to die a lingering, painful death after your body and your finances are wrecked by your addiction.
http://www.cancer.org/research/infographicgallery/tobacco-infographic-text-alternative
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/06/14/US-smoking-related-diseases-cost-96B/UPI-56571339724113/
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Cody
Verified Military
For you dippers and smokers, if you want, you can shadow me in the ER and see all the ones who didn't quit.
comrade-z
Unverified
Not exactly scientific data, but a little more tangible/visceral.
Cody
Verified Military
^thats is an eye opener.
