Smoking and Lung Cancer

[virgovictoria (Premo)]

Originally Posted by RoseRed

I'll be right back. I am going to smoke.

I will worry about you incessantly...

[godsbutterfly]

Originally Posted by pilot

My mother has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer caused by years of smoking. Nor is she the first person in my family who will die of a smoking-related disease, as I have a grandfather who died of emphysema.

Seeing what my mom is going through, I can say that lung cancer has got to be one of the worst ways to die. It's matasticized to her brain, and her whole head is full of tumors.

This brings up the question: why do people smoke? There's no doubt that smoking causes lung cancer and other horrible diseases, yet people continue to do it.

I try to talk to some of the young people I know who smoke and how my mother has a brain full of tumors, and they don't want to hear about it. They all seem to think that it can't happen to them.

I've decided that anyone who smokes has got to be an absolute idiot!!!

My sympathies for you regarding your Mother. I lost my Mother to Leukemia. My Mom would smoke every time she came back out of the hospital. She said she deserved the right after all she had been thru. By then it was too important to cherish the time with her to waste it on anger because she was smoking. I dislike smoking too, but I also understand it's very hard to quit no matter how much you want to (My Dad told me that - he was a very heavy smoker before he quit.) and that some people simply don't want tofor whatever reason. My prayers for you and your family.

[RoseRed (Premo)]

Originally Posted by sockgirl77

It's cooled off enough to enjoy it. The rain is gone now too.

Originally Posted by virgovictoria

I will worry about you incessantly...

[jazz lady (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

I think busybodies who worry incessantly about the health of complete strangers should consider seeing someone. There's probably some syndrome or something that they could get medicated for.

Munchausen by Internet Proxy?

[onebdzee (Premo)]

Originally Posted by jazz lady

Munchausen by Internet Proxy?

[Callie girl]

I quit after my mother died from lung cancer, I promised her before that I would. Good luck with your mother

[Suz (Premo)]

Originally Posted by virgovictoria

I honestly can't answer "why" I continue to smoke, knowing first hand the disease it enables. I do know that it's not for your search that I will divulge the great mystery of my evil ways. I will probably not have an answer to divulge. It's simply my choice and I'm exercising it, good or bad. Like so many other things folks do to themselves that enable disease, when thoughtful of others, it can only harm oneself in the tense of the first person.

Like Christy said, life is terminal.

I'm with you! I took care of my mom from Sept 94 to Feb 95. She died of lung cancer (in my home) and begged for a ciggy until she was no longer able to. And as many times as I've tied to quit, I don't succeed.. Why? because I just don't want to. I hate the smell, I hate the constant post nasal drip that causes me to cough. But I still puff away............ even the new pill (chantex) didn't help me quit............

[toppick08 (Premo)]

I need to quit..

[morningbell]

Originally Posted by pilot

My mother has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer caused by years of smoking. Nor is she the first person in my family who will die of a smoking-related disease, as I have a grandfather who died of emphysema.

Seeing what my mom is going through, I can say that lung cancer has got to be one of the worst ways to die. It's matasticized to her brain, and her whole head is full of tumors.

This brings up the question: why do people smoke? There's no doubt that smoking causes lung cancer and other horrible diseases, yet people continue to do it.

I try to talk to some of the young people I know who smoke and how my mother has a brain full of tumors, and they don't want to hear about it. They all seem to think that it can't happen to them.

I've decided that anyone who smokes has got to be an absolute idiot!!!

Wait, smoking gives you lung cancer?!

[pilot]

Originally Posted by Callie girl

I quit after my mother died from lung cancer, I promised her before that I would. Good luck with your mother

Kudos for quitting! You've done something wonderful, not only for yourself, but for your kids.

For those of you who would like to quit but just can't, I know it's not easy. All I can say is just keep trying!

Both my parents were smokers, who repeatedly talked about how much they regretted taking up the habit. They're the reason I'm so anti-smoking.