Stop Smoking?

Post by **darwinian** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:21 pm

Polonium 210 is found in trace amounts in nature.Everybody has a little bit inside them.You cannot avoid it if you live on this planet.

Post by **STEVE G** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:08 pm

Apparently tobacco is very good at concentrating the trace elements from the soil;
The carcinogenity of tobacco smoke is not explained by nicotine, which is not carcinogenic or mutagenic. Rather, any partially burnt material, tobacco or not, contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, particularly benzopyrene. The mechanism of their carcinogenity is well-known: oxidation produces an epoxide, which binds to DNA covalently and permanently distorts it. DNA damage is the cause of cancer. Smoke from tobacco grown with phosphate fertilizers contains polonium-210 a highly radioactive element that is 250 billion times as toxic as hydrogen cyanide.

Post by **Winkie** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:35 pm

STEVE G wrote:Apparently tobacco is very good at concentrating the trace elements from the soil;
The carcinogenity of tobacco smoke is not explained by nicotine, which is not carcinogenic or mutagenic. Rather, any partially burnt material, tobacco or not, contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, particularly benzopyrene. The mechanism of their carcinogenity is well-known: oxidation produces an epoxide, which binds to DNA covalently and permanently distorts it. DNA damage is the cause of cancer. Smoke from tobacco grown with phosphate fertilizers contains polonium-210 a highly radioactive element that is 250 billion times as toxic as hydrogen cyanide.

I didn't know that!

Winkie

Post by **buksida** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:42 pm

There is an article on Polonium 210 here:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HL02Aa01.html

Havent had a cigarette since August by the way

Terry · Post by **Terry** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:25 pm

Keep it up Buksi

It's been 3 yrs, 5 months and 4 days for me and I don't regret it one bit

Post by **Jockey** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:51 pm

darwinian wrote:Polonium 210 is found in trace amounts in nature.Everybody has a little bit inside them.You cannot avoid it if you live on this planet.

Yer right darwinian. Ah keep bumpin' in tae it aw the time!

Post by **malcolminthemiddle** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:44 pm

A new type of treatment to help smokers quit is now available in the UK.

Varenicline (champix) is the first non-nicotine drug developed specifically to help smokers give up.

More here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6207176.stm

Post by **niggle** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:37 pm

I am now at 3 weeks non smoking. I did it by 1. geting the flu for 4 days then 2. breaking my knee skiing. None of which are recommended but they worked.
I had tried patches and gum but all they did was keep nicotine in my sysytem and while levels were there, I always needed a cig to top up. I guess its waiting for the time that feels right to do it.
AAnd by the way - do I feel better - do I heck

Post by **Jockey** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:03 pm

Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I've done it loads of times.

Post by **DawnHRD** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:27 pm

A question for those that drink regularly & smoke - which do you think would be more difficult to give up? Which is more addictive in your opinion? Just curious, as I've never really smoked & I'm trying to find a measure in my life to judge giving up smoking by.

Post by **lomuamart** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:33 pm

Well, I'm on some antibiotics at the moment. No beer for 4 days - 3 to go. Easy, havn't really missed it.
A day without a cigarette would probably sent me crazy.

Post by **DawnHRD** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:56 pm

That's what I thought Lomu. I've pretty much given up drinking. I've only drunk alcohol on 3 separate occasions since New Year & I haven't found it difficult at all, despite me thinking I couldn't do it. In fact, on the 3 occasions I have had a drink (or 4), even though I've not drunk that much compared to what I used to drink, I've felt so ill the next day, that it's added incentive not to drink.
So, I was thinking that giving up smoking must be far more difficult than that.

Post by **SuperTonic** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:16 pm

prcscct wrote:Does anyone out there have any tips that really work that you've done first hand? Besides the OTC things such as gum and patches?

I'm looking for a miracle, as I think that is what it is going to take, or an induced coma for about 6 months, or death. Thanks. Pete

Try my method.. don't start smoking in the first place

Post by **jackie** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:52 am

Take a trip to a Cancer hospital and watch the agony the patients go throught because of smoking. This is what I did, only my friends have since died. One of tongue cancer, another of throat cancer and the third of lung cancer. It has cured me of smoking for the past 12 years. At the beginning when I fancied a fag I would pick up an ashtray and smell it. The smell was so bad that it has put me of cigarettes for life and I was a 30-40 a day from the age if 14.
You must have will power and take one day at a time. I can now breathe better, smell better and no more chesty coughs.
I will not let anyone smoke in my house ( please or offend ) so if you really want to stop do it now.

Post by **Mack111** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:51 pm

stop drinking normally helps people quit smoking, i normally make it from Monday to Friday with out a cig but then its beers after work on a Friday and end up smoking again.

ah which reminds me only 3 hours to go for a few afterwork beers

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