Smoking advice "Help Needed"

[Les Woodard]

Do you not love it when you see them on the TV pleading poverty and how they can not feed the tin lids or pay the bills with a fag in the mit and manicured nails plus wearing the latest fashions

[Lou Barron]

It is just WILLPOWER mate

[Les Woodard]

Got a centre up the road that has a guaranteed success rate for giving up smoking. The Crem. One puff and it is all over.

[Julie Leonard]

I have just seen my dad's post on this thread & it's really sad to see what he wrote as he is no longer with us because of smoking. He was lucky that they managed to surgically remove the cancer from one lung & he recovered well from that op. However 3 years later he developed small cell lung cancer in the other lung, secondary liver cancer & finally it spread to his brain.

I would never have imagined such a rapid decline in a once huge, healthy man was possible. In the end he was unable to walk because the cancer was attacking his motor coordination. His speech was slurred & he would get halfway through a sentence & forget what he was saying.

I miss my lovely daddy every day. The pain of his loss is quite unbearable at times. Cancer is evil & I would urge you not to smoke unless you want to end up like him. : (

[Captain Kong]

So sorry Julie, but I hope the smokers heed the warning.
I lost two friends over the last two years, identical illness to your Dad.
I hope the pain eases soon.
All the best
Brian.

[John Callon]

In mid November my partners brother was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the lower part of the esophagus. He was given a life span of 11 months maximum. At the end of that month he suffered a series of mini strokes followed by a main stroke. He is now paralysed down his left side, cannot walk and has no movement at all. This has resulted in him being too weak to receive any treatment for the cancer i.e. radiotherapy of chemo. Today he was discharged from hospital and sent home to die as an invalid. The time frame has been reduced from 11 months to maybe 8 weeks. Did he smoke? Yes!! If you do smoke read this again and again and think how this poor man must feel just 4 days before Christmas.
Sincere Regards
John

[Julie Leonard]

So sorry Julie, but I hope the smokers heed the warning.
I lost two friends over the last two years, identical illness to your Dad.
I hope the pain eases soon.
All the best
Brian.

Thank you & I am so sorry for your losses too. : ( The irony is that as my dad said he stopped smoking 15 years ago. He realised how much he actually hated the smell of smokers once he had stopped. He also said that if he knew he was going to live this long he would have taken better care of himself.

It feels like the pain of his loss will never ease but I guess it's still early days. My brother & I now have to go & empty his house, a job we are putting off until after Xmas. I am dreading it. I have many happy memories of times spent with my dad there. I don't want to pack his life into boxes. : (

[Julie Leonard]

In mid November my partners brother was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the lower part of the esophagus. He was given a life span of 11 months maximum. At the end of that month he suffered a series of mini strokes followed by a main stroke. He is now paralysed down his left side, cannot walk and has no movement at all. This has resulted in him being too weak to receive any treatment for the cancer i.e. radiotherapy of chemo. Today he was discharged from hospital and sent home to die as an invalid. The time frame has been reduced from 11 months to maybe 8 weeks. Did he smoke? Yes!! If you do smoke read this again and again and think how this poor man must feel just 4 days before Christmas.
Sincere Regards
John

I am really sorry to hear this too. My thoughts are with your family at this difficult time.

We were told by the oncologist that my dad had possibly 3 months to live after they discovered the cancer had spread to his brain. He was dead a week later. His decline was quite frankly shocking but I believe that once he realised he would not walk again he just gave up. He fought a long & brave battle with cancer & remained so positive until it took away his ability to look after himself any longer.

Were it not for the fact that I have children I would cancel Xmas this year because I'm struggling to find that cheery spirit we're supposed to have.

[Keith Moody]

this thread seems to have brought out a lot of people who do not usualy say anything on here, it must also be a record for the longest thread? also a very interesting one.
my own experiance i will put down.......
if any of you visited Dover in your MN days and you went ashore to have a few bevvies, you would probly ended up in my mothers pub "The Prince Regent" she took over as landlady back in 1936 until the 1970`s. in Dover it was rated as one of the roughest pubs in that area, her bar clients (customers) were either sailors or army personell as Dover was both a seaport and a garrison town, so you can guess that we had quite a few altercations almost every night, mum always kept a big wooden mallet under the bar, dad was ex-army first world war sergent instructor on rough riding (horses), he was also a boxing champ and was not afraid of anybody, so between them they kept the fights down. in those days everyone smoked.
after the war when i was growing up we would get the family together for one day of the year and set to and wash all the walls and ceiling down and get off as much of the nicotine as possible, this had to be scrubbed with a brush in a lot of the areas and some just wouldn`t come off. we all lived upstairs above the bar so all the smoke would drift up and smell out the place, we didn`t notice as we were in it all the time. both mum and dad smoked so it was only natural that my sisters and i eventualy took up the habit, dad eventualy died at the age of 64, whilst mum lived to be 93, but she did give up smoking at the age of 76 as she wasn`t sure but said it might endanger her health if she carried on. i smoked for years thoughout my MN days and also when i worked for the airlines, both places had duty free.
Passengers on board our flights were allowed to smoke, there was no seperate area for the non-smokers, on the earlier aircraft the cabin air was not changed as often as it is now on the moderm aircraft, back in the early 1960`s on the Boeing 707 it was completly changed every 2minutes now it is even quicker.
when i moved to canada i did various jobs and ended up buying myselfe a small 14 room hotel in the country, at this time it wasn`t unusual for me to be buying 3 packs of ciggies a day and consumig them all, then 17 years ago we got hit with a weekend of heavy snowstorms, freezing rain and bitterly cold winds, like a lot of other people I managed to get the flu and was laid up for a week, during this time i tried a few cigaretts and they all tasted like a greek athelets arm pit (not that i have ever tasted one, only what i have heard !!) so i gave it up there and then, since that time I do not seem to have saved much money or even feel healther for it, so for me to give advice I would say, read all you can and MAKE YOUR OWN DECISSIONS.
keith moody
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[happy daze john in oz]

In our youth we thought we were invincible, smoke, drink, root we had it all no one even considered the future beyond the next voyage. But in time it often comes back to haunt us, some dramaticaly, others not so bad. The excess of youth have not diminished, you only have to look at the youth of today, drink and now drugs. What future are they building for themselves??
Today we all know the dangers of what we do, in our day very few even considered it, I got to 100 smokes a day at one point, but have not had one since 1973, however I will not preach to any thta choose to smoke, it is their decission to do so.