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By
Akindman,
(Reformed
Smoker)
I first began smoking in my early teens – when I could
get a cigarette – and stated smoking full time during my senior year of high
school. It was the ‘cool’ thing to do
then – friends, peers, parents, and grandparents set the example. Over the years, I quit a couple times but
finally stop for good on March 31, 1987 while returning from lunch when my good
friend asked me when I was going to quit.
My reply was to throw away the pack and lighter in the nearest trash bin
and never again lit another cigarette.
Twelve years later, my doctor showed me a recent x-ray of
my lungs, scar tissue was still present.
In 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the
first government report saying that smoking is hazardous to your health.
It is estimated that smoking-related diseases cause more
than 440,000 American deaths annually, and costs the United States over $150
billion each year in health care costs.
Here's help for sticking to your New Year's resolution to
quit in 2012:
- National Cancer Institute's quit smoking line 1-877-44U-QUIT ( 1-877-448-7848 )
- Smokefree.gov's Quit Guide
- Live help via chat, from the National Cancer Institute, available Monday through Friday 8 a.m. until 11 p.m.
If you or someone you know is still smoking, please read
this article – ‘Smoking – health
risks’, Reviewed by Dr Patricia Macnair, GP http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/facts/smokehealth.htm
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