Post by judyb on Apr 6, 2018 22:14:44 GMT -5
DAY 26
Although cigarettes have been the downfall of most contemporary tobacco addicts, there are other
ways to go -- pipes, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco. In India there's the problem of reverse chutta
smoking--which is the smoking of a cigarlike stick with the lit end inside the mouth. The practioners
of these minority methods should not imagine that they are exempt from the problems of cigarette
smoking. Whe the mortality statistics are highest for cigarettes, each method of nicotine intake has its
own nasty side effects. Pipe smokers have high rates of lip and pharynx cancer; cigar smokers get
tongue cancer; and snuff and chewing tobacco lead to tongue and gum cancer and heart disease.
Furthermore, all nicotine users are drug addicts and consequently to some degree are escaping
reality and operating beneath capacity.
If your problem was tobacco, but not cigarettes, just substitute the name of your habit when reading
this book. Be assured that your vice, whatever it was, was just as vile as cigarettes.
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DAY 27
Among smoking diseases, lung cancer is one of the quicker ways to go. Emphysema is one of the
lingering ones. The air sacs of the lungs are destroyed; by the time the disease is diagnosed a large
percentage of these sacs are gone. The sufferer may be left struggling for breath for years before
death comes. Smokers have ten times the emphysema rate of non-smokers.
Even in the early years of smoking, tobacco is inflicting permanent damage on the lungs. Damaged
lungs cannot be reconstituted, but fortunately one can breathe with lungs that operate way below
capacity. If the damage is arrested, one may be lucky enough to never seriously suffer from the harm
already done.
From: www.amazon.com/Meditations-Surviving-Without-Cigarettes-Wanning/dp/0380769166
Although cigarettes have been the downfall of most contemporary tobacco addicts, there are other
ways to go -- pipes, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco. In India there's the problem of reverse chutta
smoking--which is the smoking of a cigarlike stick with the lit end inside the mouth. The practioners
of these minority methods should not imagine that they are exempt from the problems of cigarette
smoking. Whe the mortality statistics are highest for cigarettes, each method of nicotine intake has its
own nasty side effects. Pipe smokers have high rates of lip and pharynx cancer; cigar smokers get
tongue cancer; and snuff and chewing tobacco lead to tongue and gum cancer and heart disease.
Furthermore, all nicotine users are drug addicts and consequently to some degree are escaping
reality and operating beneath capacity.
If your problem was tobacco, but not cigarettes, just substitute the name of your habit when reading
this book. Be assured that your vice, whatever it was, was just as vile as cigarettes.
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DAY 27
Among smoking diseases, lung cancer is one of the quicker ways to go. Emphysema is one of the
lingering ones. The air sacs of the lungs are destroyed; by the time the disease is diagnosed a large
percentage of these sacs are gone. The sufferer may be left struggling for breath for years before
death comes. Smokers have ten times the emphysema rate of non-smokers.
Even in the early years of smoking, tobacco is inflicting permanent damage on the lungs. Damaged
lungs cannot be reconstituted, but fortunately one can breathe with lungs that operate way below
capacity. If the damage is arrested, one may be lucky enough to never seriously suffer from the harm
already done.
From: www.amazon.com/Meditations-Surviving-Without-Cigarettes-Wanning/dp/0380769166