tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607308484841416012024-02-21T20:15:04.337-08:00Smoking: causes effect solutionsmokinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10534211987628283298noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60730848484141601.post-37087022414138924052011-03-04T01:18:00.001-08:002011-03-04T01:18:54.863-08:00Cigarettes Help Us to Relax<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="color: #92d050; font-family: "Showcard Gothic"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One shortcoming of our modern culture is the universal lack of adequate relaxation. Many of us not only do not know how to relax, but do not take time to learn. Smoking helps us to relax because, like music, it is rhythmic. Smoking gives us a legitimate excuse to linger a little longer after meals, to stop work for a few minutes, to sit at home without doing anything that requires effort. Here is a nostalgic comment contributed by a strong defender of smoking: "After a long day's work, to get home and sit in a chair and stretch my legs 'way out, and then to sit back and just smoke a cigarette and think of nothing, just blow the smoke in the air - that's what I like to do when I've had a pretty tough day." The restful effect of moderate smoking explains why people working under great stress use more tobacco.</span></div></span></div>smokinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10534211987628283298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60730848484141601.post-3882437233358320542011-03-02T09:35:00.003-08:002011-03-02T09:35:56.535-08:00Smoking<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Haettenschweiler", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Smoking is bad for man’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>health. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. It is also responsible for many other cancers and health problems. These include lung diseases , heart and blood vessel disease, stroke and cataracts. Women who smoke have a greater chance of certain pregnancy problems or having a baby die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>smoking is also bad for other people - they breathe<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>other smoke.</span></div>smokinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10534211987628283298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60730848484141601.post-44345647649485073912011-03-01T05:26:00.000-08:002011-03-04T02:50:33.219-08:00what is the full extent of the effects of smoking on your body?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: ""sans-serif"", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: ""sans-serif"", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The effe</span><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cts of smoking varies from person</span><br />
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<span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to person as it</span><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> will </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">depend on the person's vulnerability to the chemical in </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cigarette or tobacco smoke. It will also depend on the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>number of cigarette sticks a person smokes per day, the </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">age when the person first started to smoke, and the number </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of years the person has been smoking.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here are some of the different effects of smoking:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; color: blue; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Immediate effects upon smoking a cigarette stick: </span><span style="font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nausea.</span><span style="font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Watery eyes.</span><span style="font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hyperacidity.</span><span style="font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-line-height-alt: 15.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: black; font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weakened sense of taste and smell.</span><span style="font-family: Chiller; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></li>
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">We both made a commitment to stop abuse in our communities and decided to start with ourselves by stopping smoking.</span><span style="font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">We want to inspire others in our community of Sooke, B.C. to quit, which is especially critical given the high smoking rate in the First Nations population. It makes us very sad to see youth and pregnant mothers smoking, not because they enjoy it, but because they can’t give it up. We are determined to let everyone know that if we can quit – anybody can!</span><span style="font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Last year, I (Christie) was one of the winners of the </span><span style="font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.quitnow.ca/quitnow_and_win_contest/index.ph" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Quit Now & Win </span><span style="color: purple;">contest</span></a><span style="color: purple;"> (co-sponsored by BC Lung Association). What motivated me to quit smoking was to imagine the feeling of being healthier, stronger, and free from our addiction.</span></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">We both also highly recommend the book "The Easy Way" by Allen Carr as a helpful tool in quitting smoking.</span><span style="font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"><tbody>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ece9d8; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: #ece9d8; border-top: #ece9d8; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 427.5pt;" width="570"><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape alt="Louise Francis" id="صورة_x0020_2" o:allowoverlap="f" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 156.75pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: left; mso-position-vertical-relative: line; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 0; mso-wrap-distance-right: 0; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 90.75pt; z-index: 1;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="Louise Francis" src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\t_s_comz\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata><wrap anchory="line" type="square"></wrap></shape><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Quitting together is very powerful. If it weren’t for </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.lung.ca/protect-protegez/tobacco-tabagisme/stories-histoires/groups-groupes_e.php#louise_steeves"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">my partner Louise</span></a></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, I would have smoked one thousand times. That’s because when you give someone your word, you’d better stick to it.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I kept at it because it would have been harder for me to see Louise disappointed in me if I didn’t quit.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I started quitting gradually. I had just got a new car and so I promised that I wouldn’t smoke in the car. Then, I stopped smoking in the house. For me, it was easier to chunk it out like that.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I had tried to quit smoking in the past about five times. But this is the first time that I quit together with someone. I think it made a difference. When you make a statement that you’re going to quit, you’ve got a real-life conscience living with you. I knew that I couldn’t smoke in front of Louise. She would say, if you do </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">that, then I’ll be tempted. So, I felt responsible for her.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I’d been diagnosed with early COPD, so since quitting, I’ve noticed that I’m breathing better and coughing much less.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We just celebrated our one-year anniversary of quitting on November 11<sup>th</sup>.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 12pt 0in 0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke pretty much anywhere — even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were all over the place. Today we're more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV, radio, and in many magazines.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 12pt 0in 0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. </span><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">So how come people are still lighting up?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> The answer, in a word, is <span style="color: magenta;">addiction.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 12pt 0in 0.25in;"></div></div>smokinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10534211987628283298noreply@blogger.com0