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from:msnbc.comA year after kicking the habit, smokers' arteries showed signs of reversing a problem that can set the stage for heart disease, according to the first big study to test this.
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My husband was active and basically fairly healthy as a smoker. Within a year and a half of quitting smoking in his early 40s, he had put on somewhere around 50 pounds (which is a substantial percentage of his weight as a smoker) and had a heart attack. He is on numerous medications, apparently for life. Now, a few years after the first heart attack, he is starting to show similar symptoms that preceded the first one again and I worry constantly about him having another heart attack. He has not lost the weight in the years since, despite reasonable efforts at diet and exercise (I have not gained one pound in the interim, while eating the same at-home meals). Although he continues to say that he doesn't regret quitting smoking, I privately harbor doubts that he would be in such poor health if he hadn't.
I'm a nonsmoker by the way.
9 pounds? HA! I gained 35 pounds during the 80 days of non-smoking hell I went through before throwing in the towel. I was continually sick over that nearly 3 month period. My blood pressure went up due to the weight gain. I may lose a few years due to the smoking, but my blood pressure is back to normal, I never catch the viruses going around and lost all the weight. I actually wished I was dead during those 80 days.
I quit about 6 months ago. I don't know about anyone else, but I really don't notice a single difference in the way I feel other than the fact that I've gained a few pounds. I was told I'd be able to taste my food better. Kidding, right? Food tastes no different now than it did 6 months ago. I never coughed to begin with, so I cannot compare that. The one minor change is that I can now tell (by smell) who smokes and who doesn't. It doesn't smell bad to me, though. It just smells rich and tobacco-y (unless it's day old smoke). I'd go back to it in a heartbeat if it were not for the $$ I am saving. That's a BIG plus, and it is the ONLY thing that keeps me from picking them up again. I would almost say I felt a little BETTER when I smoked. I very much enjoyed it, I was a few pounds LIGHTER.....and I ENJOYED IT! I don't drink alcohol and I don't use illegal drugs, but the one thing I would do again is smoke cigarettes if I could afford it.
nice job
The last paragraph tells it all: another study funded with OUR tax dollars, paid to a now foreign company with mega profits (from stiffin' Americans) - and company authors and researchers used.
Right. And this makes sense? Let them fund their own advertisements! We tax dollar-funded, government research done on studies of the over-medication of Americans; i.e., treating Americans with drugs for conditions caused by drugs which were caused by drugs!
Thanks for the report! Especially the last paragraph! Does this mean that The Media is going to start reporting for the people rather than Big Business?
Plus you'll breath better.
Nice article.
This just in... if you quit smoking your health improves!!!
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I had hoped that if I quit smoking if I would be back in the game in the bedroom. Unfortunately there were too many other factors that piled up against me. I am glad I quit smoking but I was disappointed I didn't get the full results I was hoping for. I still have my penis pump I got from https://postvac.com and the great thing is that now that I no longer smoke I have much better stamina.
Your joking, right?
I have quit more times than I can recall. Most times I make it about a month before I light back up. My wife smokes too, and while I don't blame her for my failures, it is tough when there are cigs all about. I have gone as long as three years.
What is irritating is that every time I quit I really do feel much better and I don't gain much if any weight. It's just staying off of them. I'll try again soon I'm sure. I'm just a glutton for punishment that way.
It's that first 2 or 3 days that's hard for me, them I'm cool until that weak moment comes along. Been on this merry go round thirty years. Funny how these things are legal but pot and narcotics are not.
The tobacco companies really nailed us good.
It took me years of trying to quit, trying everything and watching the price of patches go up every time cig prices went up. Nothing worked and I was trying; staying quit was the hardest part! What finally did it was buying nothing but the small cigars, cherry flavored - VILE! It broke me from inhaling and the taste made the habit repulsive to me. That was 10 years ago! Wow! Feel so much better, too!
I've been smoking for 47 years, since 1963, before even the warning labels came out on cigarettes, and I'll be 65 years old this June, and I don't care a bit about all these scare tactics. I'm going to smoke till the day I die and leave this earth a happy man. So, all you anti-smoking hatemongers can peddle all your scare tactics from now till kingdom come, and I'm still gonna smoke.
It is good that our government employees are reminding us that smoking is bad.
BUT, if it's so damn bad why are the same government employees making decisions to subsidizing the tobacco growers?
Wait, I forgot, maybe it's because there are Senators & Representitives who hold an interest in the tobacco businesses. Silly me.