Conclusion

Smokers have made it clear that smoking does have its benefits, but all of the dangerous effects clearly outweigh any positive elements smoking may have. Sure you can lessen your stress and keep your weight down, but increasing your risk for such a high number of health risks just isn’t worth it. Knowing this, if you don’t currently smoke don’t pick up the habit. If you do currently smoke, pinpointing what you think are the benefits of smoking can be a very good way to help you quit. Doing this will allow you to replace cigarettes with a healthier alternative.

If you smoke to help fight stress, try going for a walk, playing with an animal, or taking time to do something you love instead of smoking a cigarette. Are you a smoker with depression? Taking a medication like Zyban will help you quit smoking by lessening withdrawal symptoms while also fighting depression. Are you afraid that when you quit smoking you’ll gain weight? Chew a piece of gum or have a piece of fruit or other healthy snack when your appetite kicks in.

If you’re a smoker and want more information on effective ways to quit, please visit the following link that has many useful tips: http://www.smokefree.gov/quit-smoking/index.html

Smoking is Anti-Social

I am not a smoker and I am totally anti-smoking. I cannot understand why smokers wish to have a habit that could cause them various health problems and even kill them. I think smoking should definitely be banned in public. It is the most anti-social but accepted pastime. It is unfair that non-smokers can't go to pubs without being surrounded by other people's smelly cigarette smoke, that causes their clothes to stink of fags. There are also the potential health risks of passive smoking. If people wish to participate in this filthy habit, they should do it in their own homes where they are not harming others.

Smoking in public

Ok I don’t care if you smoke or not. You can kill yourself with your own hands for all that matters I DON’T care BUT please when you are in public, just don’t do it!

I was in a cafe yesterday, and I felt suffocated in there, everyone was smoking. I don’t get why people come to eat AND smoke. Isn’t a restaurant a place to eat? I noticed that here, more women than men smoke. Most of them wear trendy cloths and are stick thin. I don’t know what’s up with that but anyways, don’t they think of how much they annoy and harm non-smokers, kids, older people, sick people and pregnant ladies?

… Do You Know What Can Happen to other people while inhaling that filth?

1. When people smoke, those around them are affected both by smoke from a burning cigarette and by second-hand or passive smoke- this is the smoke that the smoker blows back out after inhaling.

2. Passive smoke is worse than the smoke that a smoker inhales from a cigarette- passive smoke is much more concentrated.

What happens to children when they are around passive smoke:

✦ More respiratory illnesses, including asthma
✦ Growth may be slowed
✦ Increased chance of having chronic lung disease as an adult

I hope this country, the one I come from and the one I am currently living in, considers banning smoking in public places.

IIUM Smoking Zone ???

Mon, Dec 18- Quite a number of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) students are seen to smoke in the public area openly without fear towards any actions that might be taken upon them due to the lack of authority inspection.

These students are brave to reveal their obsession without even care neither the IIUM rules and regulations, nor the privacy and rights of other students.
The most popular spots for these smokers are the open air dining cafeteria, such as Bassbusa, Kyros Kebab, Economics café and Nescafe.

Nadhila, 24, Psychology student said, ”It is inappropriate to smoke openly in the campus since it polluted the academic surrounding.”

“It is good if other students are brave enough to approach and admonish those smokers directly. Although it is not a major problem in IIUM, but the danger due to the exposure is there.” she added.

Nadhila’s statement is agreed by Suhaina, 21, also a Psychology student by insisting that smoking is clearly prohibited in the campus, and it is unethical to grab the rights of others to inhale the fresh air.

“Students always mumble saying that they don’t have enough money, but actually they are wasting money for cigarettes.”

“There is no good of smoking, where as it would lead to erectal disfunction as well.” she said.
According to Arifuddin, 23, Bachelor of English Language (BENL) student, “I’m not a smoker, so I don’t like smokers too.”

“Passive smokers have larger possibilities to get the impact compared to the first degree smokers. They smoke, but we are the victims since we consumed the poisonous air that they released.” he added.

However, Abdullah, 23, Information Communication Technology (ICT) student brought up a different view,”It is individuals’ rights, and I think IIUM should provide a specific place or a smoking area for the students to smoke.”

Smoking

This is a 4 years-old child of a Taman Negara jungle tribe (Malaysia). She's smoking a well known brand of cigarettes. After see this picture i very sad because just 4 years old child already smoking, why parent didn't stop her?Hoped one day she'll aware.

Health Hazards of Tobacco

Smoking is a health hazard because so many people lose their lives due to smoking-related diseases. Smoking affects different parts of your body such as the heart, lungs, and brain. The chemicals and poisons in cigarettes can cause emphysema, bronchitis, heart disease, heart attacks, stroke, and cancer. One in two smokers dies prematurely from smoking. Lung cancer accounts for 22% of cancer deaths, and it is the most common type of cancer. One in four people that develop cancer get lung cancer.

Also 90% of the people who get cancer of the mouth and throat get it because they used tobacco. Different types of cancer also include liver, stomach, bladder, kidney, and cervical cancer. Forty years of smoking causes a 60% greater chance of getting breast cancer. And if a person smokes a pack or more a day the risk is 83% higher.

There are 1.1 billion tobacco users worldwide. Smoking can also ruin your appearance by staining your teeth, yellowing your fingernails, and causes wrinkles, gum disease, tooth decay, and bad breath. Smoking can cause a decrease in athletic performance, such as not being able to run fast or jump as high. Chronic coughing, more phlegm in your mouth, and asthma are also effects that smoking can have on your body.

The following pictures are very graphic. If you are at all squeamish do not look at the following:


Gangrene - due to decreased blood flow caused by smoking

Mouth cancer and Lip cancer

Lip cancer caused by years of smoking

These picture came from smoker's body parts. These are actual images and have not been enhanced or altered in any way.

Is this what you want your body to look like?

Smoking Athletes?

In fitness world, many athletes do exercise with supplements, steroids or spandex. On the contrary, it is the almost incredible combination of exercise and smoking. However, there are people who do both. They compete in marathons and triathlons and go hiking and train at the gym, and also have a pretty steady cigarette habit.

For example, “At the Pikes Peak Marathon, A nonsmoker won, and the three smokers who ran never finished the race. A smoker did beat to the top, but decided to smoke a cigarette instead of heading back.” It shows that nonsmokers are better than smokers at Marathon, triathlons and something like that. In other words, smoking doesn’t have any good things for athletes and it is just one of bad habits.

So, the smokers have different point of view about their habit. Some think it doesn’t matter and others think when they should try to quit. But for now, smoking and exercise continue to run in synchronization.

MY OPINION:

There is no reason why people do exercise and smoking? It is so bad for our lungs and body. Can they say, they really do exercise for their health? Of course, smoking and exercise is better than smoking and sitting. However, it is obviously not the smartest thing, and these athletes could probably do better if they didn't smoke.

Moreover, smoking causes consistent damage to the body. If someone is exercising and smoking they have serious issues on a number of levels, including a strong possibility of mental illness. Actually, many people have lung cancer or emphysema because of smoking. So, I think the best way is that smokers stop smoking even if they don’t exercise. To stop smoking is the first thing!

STOP SMOKING, EASY, QUIT SMOKING, SIMPLY !

If you are on the path or have decided that you want to or are going to quit, this is it! Cutting down/Butting out for good, led you to picking up this guide to learn more. Natural curiosity brought you this far. Stay tuned to learn HOW.

Some fear for their health and do not want to die and once they hear the facts it is enough to let them make the final decision to STOP SMOKING.

Maybe your own coughing has led you to realizing that you are in fact gambling with your own life and longevity. You have had enough and want to quit! You might also have a negative effect by this destructive habit on the people around you including your kids and family.

There is MORE to quitting smoking than simply stopping you need to unlock the secrets of not returning to bad old habits that do tend to die rather hard. Many fail at trying to quit, have and will down the line. Your story and path need NOT go down that road.

Diagnosing and treating a condition or addiction for that matter, might require some intensive therapy and intervention to get the desired outcome, success and results. There are limitations, pros and cons to every conceivable method of coping with substance abuse and nicotine-type addictions.

Hypnosis has been proven to be quite effective, however it cannot cure all ills, nor is it the quick-fit, silver-bullet solution some make it out to be. Realistic expectations, good know how and disciplined, consistent good choices will all do their part to get you where you need to be/go!

Utilizing and optimizing techniques like relaxation, induced, guided, hypnosis and even self-hypnosis, making the most of the body, mind connection and interrelatedness to get results can work wonders. This might be leading to behavior modification of some bad habitual tendencies and actions. These are at the very center and core of some of the most advanced techniques of cessation treatment for smoking.

Safe for all and not dangerous or harmful in any way, shape or form, there are lots of options and applications for this natural process, tried and true accepted method of practice.

Many want to be assured that the treatment that they seek are right for them, that there are some standards and measurements, rules of thumb that apply to and help all.

Exposure to smoking can make you deaf

Earlier this week BBCi carried an article Smoking link to hearing problems. A fetus whose mother smoked during pregnancy or teenagers who smoke are at risk from experiencing "auditory attention deficits".

To quote the New Scientist:

Nicotine may cause the teenage brain to develop abnormality, resulting in changes to the structure of white matter [brain] ... Teenagers who smoke or whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from auditory attention deficits ....

Prenatal and adolescent exposure to tobacco smoke were associated with changes in white matter in brain pathways that relay signals to the war.

This had picked up on earlier research by Jacobsen, et al at Yale University, carrying on from previous work that stated in terms of prenatal exposure to nicotine:

... clinical studies have linked maternal smoking during pregnancy with persistent deficits ... [in] auditory processing in offspring. (Fried et al, 1997, 2003; McCartney et al, 1994)

And similarly for teenagers:

Nicotine is also disruptive to adolescent brain development (Abreu-Villaca et al., 2003) ... Neurodevelopment continues through adolescence.

Anti-smoking posters

Our students were invited to create posters for an anti-smoking contest. Would you still want to smoke after seeing these?

Smokers and Ex-smokers

Smokers always feel that smoking helps them in getting rid from unhappiness, stress, boredom, anxiousness and loneliness. The life without a cigarette means complete boredom and frustration. Most of the smokers feel that they will put on weight after quitting cigarette. They can work faster and better after a puff of cigarette. While smoking they can be more sociable. Smoking is also a way to celebrate on special occasions. Smokers feel that everything loses its charm without smoking. They are unable to enjoy social gathering, fun, games, drink, or even the company of their spouse. According to this data of smokers, smoking has so many great attributes.

However, one more data contradicts this data. In America, almost 33, 000, 000 Americans have quitted smoking and are leading a healthy life. A non-smoker would never be able to understand the great qualities of cigarette. However, the ex-smokers are well aware of these wonderful qualities. Still they have decided to quit. Are these 33, 000, 000 people mad?

These people are not mad, but they understood the disadvantages of smoking. They had also gone through the painful withdrawal symptoms of Nicotine. Still, they managed all the pain. They fought not only with the physical addiction, but also with the psychological addiction. The psychological addiction is a little tough, but they managed that too. They convinced themselves fully about the bad consequences of smoking. This demands a lot of firm determination from their side and a positive approach.

These smokers must be appreciated for coming out from this addiction. The earlier phase of quitting makes smoker a little insecure. However, you must have confidence on yourself that it is possible to live without cigarettes.

Once come out of the tight and dangerous grip of smoking. You will understand that you were on a wrong track. You were living in the world of misconceptions. After quitting smoking, they will realize that life without smoking is healthier, calmer and beautiful.

It depends on the ex-smoker, whether he/she wants to smoke again or not. Now, it demands a logical reasoning from you. However, many smokers again start smoking. The cause for their again taking up smoking is that they forgot the bad consequences of smoking. There is one more cause of taking up smoking again is the urge that they are unable to resist.

Therefore, all ex-smokers have two choices, either to quit it or to start smoking again. It is useless to be an occasional smoker, as it is also harming you a lot. Thus, make a promise of not letting even a little bit of Nicotine into your body.

Be my friend, stay smoke-free

Smoking is an addictive behaviour. Most smokers start smoking in their adolescence. Smoking causes about 5 million deaths worldwide every year. It's estimated that 1 in 2 smokers will die from tobacco related cause.

Peer pressure is one of the ways in which one is influenced to smoke, but peer pressure can also be one of the ways to encourage a smoke-free lifestyle. Therefore, if used positively, peer influence can be tapped to bring about positive results.

This year's National Smoking Control Campaign, is focusing on involving youths in promoting a smoke-free lifestyle. The objective of this competition is to encourage students to think of ways to encourage their peers to lead a smoke-free lifestyle. Although the theme of this year's campaign is "Be my friend, stay smoke-free" students can also think of ways to encourage others whom they have a close relationship with such as their family members of relatives to lead a smoke-free lifestyle.

Stop smoking

1. YOUTH STATISTICS

2. MALAYSIA SMOKING STATISTICS

Here are more smoking statistics from Malaysia:

*Every day about 50 teenagers below the age of 18 start smoking.
*Smoking is estimated to have caused more than half a million coronary events.
*Smoking rates are highest in rural Kelantan and lowest in urban Penang and Sarawak.
*Malaysia has been dubbed the "indirect advertising capital" of the world. Some of the tobacco
industry's most blatant efforts to target young people can be seen here.
*At least two tobacco companies were among the top 10 advertisers in recent years.

My advice: Smoking is a highly dangerous activity. You are not only putting your own health and future in danger, but you are also harming your loved ones. They breathe in your secondhand smokemore than anyone do. Think, before you satisfy your daily craving of nicotine.

Yuck! You put that in your mouth?!

Smoking affects these parts of your mouth:
A. Lips.

B. The floor of the mouth, under tongue.

C. The tongue.

D. The palate.

E. The root of the tongue.

Smoking causes oral cancer.
Smoking is dangerous for your teeth and gums. The teeth may fall out, as smoking can cause periodontal disease. Smoking delays the healing of wounds, and stains the teeth, gums and fillings. The worst consequence is the increased risk of mouth cancer.

Periodontal disease is a condition where the tissues that support the teeth - the gums and the bone - slowly deteriorate, and the teeth become loose and finally fall out. Anyone can suffer from periodontal disease, but smoking increases the risk. Heavy smokers are six times more likely to suffer from periodontal disease than non-smokers.

The risk of contracting periodontal disease depends on how much you smoke. If you smoke 30 cigarettes a day, you are six times more likely to contract periodontal disease than a non-smoker.

If you smoke 10 cigarettes a day or less, the risk is still three times higher than for a non-smoker.

If you smoke, the risk of contracting cancer of the mouth is four times higher than for a non-smoker.

Daniel radcliffe dubbed 'Harry Puffer' with smoking habit

Radcliffe, is reportedly smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day on the set of the next Harry Potter instalment, reports celebrity gossip websites including Showbizspy.com.

The hard word on Radcliffe, 18, comes as Hollywood movie star Patrick Swayze recently announced he was dying from pancreatic cancer and was globally shamed for being caught smoking in public with the disease.

A source said: “Daniel has recently been smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day.

“Every time they call ‘Cut’, he lights up.

“It’s disgusting.”

“Friends and co-stars including Rupert Grint have been warning him about the dangers of smoking.”

But he doesn’t seem to be taking any notice.

Close friends fear Daniel’s unhealthy habit could ruin his clean-cut image - and have now warned him not to be seen puffing in public.

“He’s been having late nights out with stars like Kevin Spacey and Stephen Fry and seems to have picked up bad habits from the luvvie set.”

Last week, a nervous Radcliffe turned to the cancer sticks when he had to perform a tricky stunt himself because his double was absent.

The source added to British newspaper The Sun: “He was sparking up constantly.”
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Graphic "Smoking Teens" Show

The images typically elicit a gasp or "ugh" from youngsters. Yet they can't help looking more closely at the "Iowa Smoking Teens," altered images of two teens that show the effects of smoking--from blackened lungs to a 20 percent increase in the risk of cataracts to "dead toes."

The innovative images of two teenagers, one male and one female, appear on life-sized cutouts and a poster (18" by 24") to illustrate how cigarette smoking and other nicotine use affects the human body, often causing disease. The visual materials are effective educational tools for the Thoracic Oncology Program within Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa. Online images allow viewers to click on each of the body parts or organs to learn more about the serious health risks associated with smoking cigarettes.

The posters target teens because 90 percent of people who smoke start by the time they are 18, said Renee Gould, A.P.N. with the UI Thoracic Oncology Program. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that one in three adult smokers began the habit at the young age of 14.

"Smoking is a pediatric disease," Gould said. "Unfortunately, our program doesn't see smokers until they're about 40 years old and have been smoking the majority of their lives."

Gould and colleagues take the life-sized cutouts and the posters to schools, state fairs, and health fairs. "If we can keep one person from smoking by showing these striking images, it's worth our visit," Gould said.

The images on the posters include photos (used with permission) of diseased organs and body parts from actual patients. For example, the "dead foot" that appears on the young man was taken from a patient who even volunteered to show the image to his granddaughter's class to help promote the non-smoking message. Nicotine use can result in poor circulation, causing tissue death in extremities like the toes.

Lou Halsch, former coordinator for the UI Thoracic Oncology Program, came up with the visual idea when she saw a life-sized cutout of Hayden Fry, former UI football coach, at a local grocery store. Previously, she had noticed that most anti-smoking visuals of tissue samples were too small for audiences to see and appreciate.

With the help of a UI pathologist and his library of specimens and the skills of a graphic designer, the group added the vivid images of diseased organs and body parts to the previously healthy appearance of life-sized models, two seniors at Iowa City West High School.

"I thought it would really be awesome to make a life-sized teen. Then, they were so popular, and people were asking how to get them, so we reduced the image size and put it onto a poster," said Halsch, who now works in graduate medical education for UI Hospitals and Clinics.

Halsch said that it is not necessarily the cancer aspects of the realistic images that make kids "sit up and take notice."

"Guys really pay attention to the photo showing impotence from nicotine use," Halsch said. "For other kids, it's the premature wrinkling, change in voice quality or staining on fingers that makes an impression on them."

The posters are used by teachers in their classrooms and, at fairs, grabbed up by a range of people--from grandmothers to college students who take them home to show their loved ones or roommates who smoke. The posters also have the positive effect of getting some teens interested in the health care profession, Halsch added.

Stopping's Hard but it won't kill you

An information and support pack for young people who want to give up smoking. "Stopping's Hard" is a unique 24 page illustrated booklet written especially for 11 to 16 year olds to help them plan and prepare to stop smoking.

Smoking cigarettes is a nasty habit

This is how lung cancer looks:

Cigarettes are a weapon, they kill, they destroy lives, consume the smoker lungs and make them non-functional, cigarettes make the teeth and nails yellow, the skin wrinkles, it's hard to walk fast, it's difficult to run, to do any kind of sport or physical activity because it feels like the lungs just can't expand anymore and the gasping for air starts. The risks for a heart attack increase immensely for a smoker, and the mortality rate as well.It's hard to quit smoking, but it's not impossible.

Let us start promoting our disgust against this nasty habit. Do you all agree?

Quitting smoking can kill you

Both parents died of smoking-related Cancer.

In 182 of the 312 cases they had treated, an habitual smoker of at least a pack a day, for at least a quarter-century, had developed lung cancer shortly after he gave up smoking.
They reasonably surmised, that a biological mechanism protects smokers against cancer, which is strengthened by years of determined smoking. But when the smoker quits, “a surge and spurt in re-activation of bodily healing and repair mechanisms of chronic smoke-damaged respiratory epithelia is induced and spurred by an abrupt discontinuation of habit,” and “goes awry, triggering uncontrolled cell division and tumour genesis.”

Your actual mileage may vary.

The same general principle would apply: that a body long accustomed to a (frankly addictive) substance, goes haywire when the substance is removed. Verily, in the good old days, people instinctively understood things like that, without the need for medical research. And it was inconceivable that, for instance, hospitals would prevent patients from smoking, who were already medically challenged on other fronts.
More widely disseminated medical literature has documented other risks of non-smoking, that include neurotic depression, violent irritability, and obscene weight gain. But these tend to be discounted because they lead to death only indirectly.

But ladies, don’t forget that smoking add about 10 years to your apparent age.

In the past I have flagged U.N. statistics showing that life expectancy was nicely proportional to tobacco consumption, internationally — so that e.g. Japan and South Korea were respectively first and second in BOTH life expectancy AND tobacco consumption. Whereas, the lowest tobacco consumption was in “basketcase” Third World countries, where we also found some of the shortest life expectancies.
I think we could also find historical statistics showing that there is a reliable, worldwide relationship between rising tobacco consumption, and rising life expectancy, nation by nation, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

If they keep smoking...

Bromenn Regional Medical Center in Bloomington, Indiana, is FREAKING TEENS OUT about smoking cigarettes by showing them what they'll look like eventually if they keep smoking. A teens picture is fed to the software, which generates two pictures: The teen in 40 years without smoking, and the teen after 40 years of smoking. If I were a teenager, I wouldn't want to grow up to look like either of these freaky-looking dudes.

My opinion:

I am never going to smoke after seeing this picture. I'll show this picture to my friend because she's on the brink of straiting to smoke. Definitely show it to your friend, please quit it.