Post by judyb on Apr 4, 2018 12:43:53 GMT -5
DAY 17
A smoker is a slave, at the beck and call of a cigarette. you, however, are now free. As your life need
no longer be arranged around smoke breaks, you can go anywhere and do anything. If you've
dreamed of exploring interior New Guinea, you can go without worrying about running out of
cigarettes. And speaking of running, you don't get that awful pain deep in your lungs anymore when
you dash for a bus. If you're lucky, you stopped smoking before you had a heart attack.
Young persons who have heart attacks are overwhelmingly smokers. The chemicals in tobacco
accelerate arteriosclerosis, and hearts of smokers are starved for oxygen. Carbon monoxide, inhaled
from tobacco, readily displaces oxygen in the bloodstream. A smoker has 8 to 30 times as much
carbon monoxide in his/her veins as a nonsmoker--thus getting less oxygen than a nonsmoker would
at 8,000 feet.
Young males who smoke two packs a day have seven times the risk of a heart attack as nonsmokers.
For young women--under age 50-- smoking two packs a day raises the risk for heart attack to ten
times that of nonsmoking women. -----------------------------------------
DAY 18
Has anyone commented on how much better you smell? There are no two ways about it: smokers
stink. One can usually detect a smoker by smell alone, and stale tobacco is not an endearing odor. A
smoker's house stinks, too. Most of us do not care to hang around inside one. Often it's also
overheated because the smoker has poor circulation and jacks the thermometer up. The smell inside
a smoker's car does not bear mention.
From: www.amazon.com/Meditations-Surviving-Without-Cigarettes-Wanning/dp/0380769166
A smoker is a slave, at the beck and call of a cigarette. you, however, are now free. As your life need
no longer be arranged around smoke breaks, you can go anywhere and do anything. If you've
dreamed of exploring interior New Guinea, you can go without worrying about running out of
cigarettes. And speaking of running, you don't get that awful pain deep in your lungs anymore when
you dash for a bus. If you're lucky, you stopped smoking before you had a heart attack.
Young persons who have heart attacks are overwhelmingly smokers. The chemicals in tobacco
accelerate arteriosclerosis, and hearts of smokers are starved for oxygen. Carbon monoxide, inhaled
from tobacco, readily displaces oxygen in the bloodstream. A smoker has 8 to 30 times as much
carbon monoxide in his/her veins as a nonsmoker--thus getting less oxygen than a nonsmoker would
at 8,000 feet.
Young males who smoke two packs a day have seven times the risk of a heart attack as nonsmokers.
For young women--under age 50-- smoking two packs a day raises the risk for heart attack to ten
times that of nonsmoking women. -----------------------------------------
DAY 18
Has anyone commented on how much better you smell? There are no two ways about it: smokers
stink. One can usually detect a smoker by smell alone, and stale tobacco is not an endearing odor. A
smoker's house stinks, too. Most of us do not care to hang around inside one. Often it's also
overheated because the smoker has poor circulation and jacks the thermometer up. The smell inside
a smoker's car does not bear mention.
From: www.amazon.com/Meditations-Surviving-Without-Cigarettes-Wanning/dp/0380769166