I just finished talking with my friend who is a smoker. He found out a few weeks ago he has Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer (unrelated to the smoking). I asked him what he was doing about smoking now that he has cancer. He said, “I quit.”
“You quit smoking just like that?” I asked.
“Dude, I have cancer. The doctor told me to quit smoking, so I did.” He said.
“No patches, no gum… nothing? You just quit.” I asked again.
“As soon as he told me to I quit, I quit.” He answered.
He then went on to tell me about his friend who was a smoker and who had recently had open heart surgery. The doctor told that guy to quit and he did. Just like that. No patches, no gum, no nothing. That guy told my friend nothing helps you quit smoking like thinking you’re going to die.
So my biggest complaint about smokers who can’t quit smoking is that you are the portrait of weakness. Like my father-in-law who has tried to quit smoking once every six months for the last 5 years. He’s a quitter alright. But he’s not quitting smoking.
Smokers who can’t quit smoking were weak when they started smoking. Their weakness got them addicted to smoking. Their weakness forced them to spend hundreds of dollars a month on a worthless habit. And now, their weakness is keeping them from quitting.
The only reason a smoker can’t quit smoking is because they are weak. End of story.
It is possible to quit smoking and it is possible to do it without the patches, gum and hypnosis. Just ask my friend who got cancer or his friend who had a heart attack. They can tell you how to quit smoking.
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the whole concept of addiction, ut least under the popular and ever-expanding definition, is a huge racket enabler, and the rackets are everywhere, all based on selling the lie: “you need us”. “you will always need us”.
archer on October 21st, 2007 at 2:28 pm | Link
Yep if you want to quit you can just quit that simple. All the quit gimicks are just that gimmicks to get your money.
Mark on October 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 am | Link
Right.
They aren’t gimmicks, in the UK you can get them free on the NHS.
Rob on October 31st, 2007 at 8:47 am | Link
right.
the theory being that if it’s free, and provided by socialism, it therefore must be valid and needed.
kudos on the complaint
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THANK YOU for finally speaking the truth!!!!!!! Yes, smokers - just take that cigarette and throw it away and never buy another one. That’s all you have to do! How do I know? Here’s a little story:
My father smoked his entire life. He claimed he was addicted and could not quit. Despite the fact that it cost our family thousands and thousands of dollars for his smelly habit which destroyed his health. One side effect of smoking is early heart attacks. He had one at 62. Then, at the age of 64 the doctor told him he had lung cancer and he was going to die. My father quit smoking that day on the spot. He lived another 2 years due to chemo and about a billion pills a day ($200,000 in medical bills, by the way). He did not pick up one cigarette in those two years. Just think, if he had quit when he was 17 he would have lived 10-30 years longer.
Here’s another one: I debated on whether or not to date an old flame from high school because he smoked. So I told him, I will not date you unless you quit smoking. He had smoked for 10 years and quit on the spot for love. We have been married for three years.
Please smokers, find that one reason to quit smoking and just QUIT!
My Two Cents on June 9th, 2008 at 3:23 pm | Link
So im on here reading the comments and the story….and I have yet to hear someone say ya I smoked and I quit….everyone is complaining about someone in there life who blew money or their breath stinks….the fact of the matter is that its an addiction and its hard to stop some people can contain their additction better than other and it doesnt make them weak it just means they have to try so much harder than the person who was told they were going to die…and if your docs not facing you with that then you have to want it to do it….I am a smoker and have been for 15 years have I tried to quit sure more times than most and ive finally come to realize I dont want to quit yet and you have to be ready to do it before you can just stop and I’m sure if I had a doctor telling me that I had to or I would die SOON then I would try a little harder than I have….Fact of the matter is that it has nothing to do with weakness but it has all to do with wanting to do it if you dont want to your wont if you do want to then you will….so on that note kudoes to all who have hopefully I will join that group soon…..
Jenn on September 2nd, 2008 at 6:29 am | Link
I was a smoker for 15 years. I quit over 2 years ago, cold turkey, end of story.
End of story? Not quite.
I crave every day, I see smokers and I crave, my mind still smokes though I do not.
It takes great will to quit smoking. Lung cancer took my father, I did not quit smoking then, it just came to a day where I needed to quit.
I hate the tobacco companies, they are peddlers of filth knowingly poisoning millions and because of money, they continue to kill.
But… I could start smoking tomorrow… but I won’t, because I quit.
KW on November 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm | Link
I’m with KW - a former smoker. Weak? Youbet. Too weak to quit? No - but weak enough to find the calling every day.