QUIT SMOKING

ABOUT MYSELF
Now I am 60 plus

I started regular smoking at age of 23 years & quit at age of 36 years.
At that time I was smoking 60 cigarettes a day.
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You have read allot about harms of smoking. But not much is emphasized
on harm to fetus if any of the parents is smoking, if they are living together.

HOW DIFFICULT IS TO QUIT
If we decides to quit smoking He has to think, if he looses one of the limbs,
shall he commit suicide.

INFORMATION ONE REQUIRES TO KNOW
• Smoking is a habit not intoxication. So the call to smoke is of habit not intoxication
• Alcohol & Bhang also fall in the same category.
• Intoxications like Hashish, LSD are real

CLASSIFICATION
To judge, whether habit is calling or intoxication. is very simple.

If it is a habit, urge shall be persisting, till it is consumed.

If it is a serial intoxication, it will call at the time body requires. After
say about 30 minutes one shall feel intoxicated, irrespective of whether he consumes drug or not.
The effects shall be lesser & crave shall be harder. This feature will persist
for a few days.

HOW WE GET PLEASURE IN SMOKING
While smoking we inhale carbon mono oxide [CO] also with carbon di oxide [CO2] & carbon particles.

Carbon mono oxide clogs the blood cells.

When we inhale fresh air oxygen [O2] between the puffs of cigarettes; the clogged blood cells bust, in turn the blood converts back to normal shape.

This particular process gives the pleasure to a smoker. The visible indications are one is smoking after a long time he starts swatting, even in cold whether.

HELP
To achieve the same effect, one has to hold his breed till he can. In the process some carbon mono oxide will be formed, & create same effect.

The most well known smoking induced COPD ( Chronicobstructive pulmonary disease) is emphysema. This is another one of those diseases that primarily happen to smokers. Over 90% of the cases are smoking induced.

To get a sense of how a lung is altered by smoking to cause emphsema look at the pictures above. The first is a picture of an inflated non-smoker city dweller's lung. And second a smoker's lung with emphysema There is a very dramatic visible difference. Not only is the discoloration the issue, but the lungs have literally been ripped out of shape making breathing extremely difficult and eventually impossible

To get a sense of what it feels like to breathe with emphysema take a deep breath and hold it. Without letting out any air, take another deep breath. Hold that one too. One more time, take one more breath. Now let it all out.

That second or third breath is what it feels like to breathe when you have emphysema. Emphysema is a disease where you cannot exhale air. Everyone thinks that it is a disease where you cannot inhale but in fact it is the opposite. When you smoke you destroy the lungs elasticity by destroying the tissue that pulls your lung back together after using muscles that allow us to inhale air. So when it comes time to take your next breath it is that much more difficult, for your lungs could not get back to their original shape.

Imagine going through life having to struggle to breathe like those last two breaths I had you take. Unfortunately, millions of people don't have to imagine it, they live it daily. It is a miserable way to live and a slow painful way to die.

Hopefully when you breathe normally today you are not in pain and you are not on oxygen. If you don't smoke you will continue to give yourself the ability to breathe longer and feel better. Never lose sight of this fact. To keep your ability to breathe better for the rest of your life, always remember to - NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF !