Posted by 10derHeart on May 16, 2006, at 14:34:00
In reply to Re: bloody aussies... » Estella, posted by ClearSkies on May 15, 2006, at 9:08:52
>>It's nothing but shock-and-awe tactics for scaring people into quitting smoking. Yuck.<<
...and that's bad because....?
I mean, whatever helps to motivate, and fear is often one great motivator, IMO. This type of knowledge, along with my then-10 year-old daughter (who'd already lost her dad to brain cancer - may have been smoking related/impossible to tell) saying, "so, Mom, if you die from smoking those, I'll be an orphan. And who will I live with?" from time to time, that helped *tremendously* in pushing me over the edge into quitting in 1993.
I say this only out of a deep concern for those still smoking, especially those dear to my heart, which definitely includes Estella. We need to keep her around for a *long* time!!
I work in an intensive care unit. Nearly everyone over the age of sixty (sometimes younger, too) who is smoking still has COPD or other lung afflictions...and that's along with whatever other condition may bring them to out unit. So I suppose I get constant reminders....
I have compassion. I still crave the da*n nicotine after 13 years. It was the single hardest thing I ever did, to stop. I am not a nagging, nasty ex-smoker, I promise. But it does kill, and quitting is the only viable defense....
So I say, whatever it takes.
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