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finished a mandatory class on smoking cessation. would of been interesting had i hadn’t read the threads here in the CR about it. most of the info here was actually accurate and very similar. the only difference was which POV i was learning it. i was learning it from the patient education aspect for RN’s while here it was a dif POV.
Hi yenting.
Hatlacha in your efforts to cease smoking. Perhaps you may want to quit eventually, too.
Just know that once you quit, iyH, the healing of tissue, etc., is pretty quick, beH.
Hi yenting.
Ah. I get you now. I am glad you dont smoke.
lol, “mandatory sit in boredom day” for FOUR hours? The lecture on cessation of smoking alone kinda makes you want to go out for a cigarette break, chas veshalom.
Being a nursing student is a big undertaking. It takes a lot of versatility, a good mind, and a lot of study. From what I hear, I think you will find it very meaningful and rewarding.
It’s amazing, in light of what we know about cigarettes, that they are still allowed to sell those things.
I heard there were about 70 known poisons that come from smoking cigarettes. And now, they found the soil for tobacco growth is infiltrated with radon. That means, and correct me if I am wrong, if someone smokes, they are inhaling radiation into their lungs. As far as I know, that does not dissipate easily, if at all.
I heard there is a way to remove the radon, but since that also removes the nicotine, the tobacco companies are not employing any methods to remove radon from the soil of their plants.
Hatzlacha!!
Hi yenting.
I have not doubt that your view on smoking is right on target, and understand it’s deleting because our community’s smoker are purely ignorant on the subject.
I just posted this a few minutes ago on another thread:
“I cannot tell you how many people in our community will argue that smoking is really ok and helps them to relax and is not so bad because its the only “bad: thing they do.
At least in the outside world they admit they should quit, have tried numerous times, and that it will probably kill them.
Not only that, but there is evidence that from the first puff, permanent genetic mutations can take place that can chas veshalom affect the smokers children to be born at some time in the future.
I just dont get it. Smoking, (even more than texting and internet), should be declared a sakana; period! Kosher phone; kosher mind;…… kosher body!””
Yinting. I dont know why so many in our community, the smartest on earth, support, yes, support the idea of cigarettes.
One would think due to the terrible rise in illness, that in addition to checking tznius, tefillin, middos, etc, people should be told to remove cigarettes from their lives.
Yenta -“NRT (nicotine replacement therapy)”
The latest news is – this doesn’t help. You have to use other methods.
The lecture on cessation of smoking alone kinda makes you want to go out for a cigarette break, chas veshalom.
My dinner almost went out instead of in. Thanks.
Hi *kapusta*.
I feel bad about your dinner almost going out instead of in.
Was it too salty? lol
(I hope you know the line you commented on was a facetious/ironic comment with regards to spending hours in a lecture about smoking)
Yenta – It was in all the news online. It’s even possible that YWN had it. Google it -I didn’t pay attention to the details -like who published the study, etc.
Yenta -Whom are you treating that you need new guidelines?
Way before this study came out -I’ve posted many times here that it’s a 3-pronged approach. Why don’t you read my former posts?
I have never met a person who quit smoking who didn’t truly want and decide to quit; and I have never (yet) met a smoker who truly wanted to and decided to quit, and then failed.
As an aside, eating a lot (i.e. getting obese) is far less pleasant to me than smoking, and more likely to cause a premature death (I believe fewer than 1 in 12 smokers die before their average life expectancy directly due to smoking – don’t all jump on me at once… I said I believe. I would love more information on this question. Maybe they don’t publish this part of studies). I don’t smoke (anymore) BTW. I just don’t appreciate the manipulation of numbers that anti-smokers use to try to influence mass behavior, even if some of it is true. E.g. “Smokers are 20 times more likely to get lung cancer,” vs. “Non-Smokers have a 1/7200 incidence of lung cancer, smokers have 1/360 incidence of lung cancer” The CDC said the first one, I said the second one (based on info from the CDC). Both are true. I can even turn it around. Someone who quits smoking has an 80% likelihood of gaining weight. Perhaps it is healthier to smoke. Remember, figures can’t lie but liars can figure. Trying to maximize the emotional effect by being tricky, just because it is the most practical way to lower healthcare spending is wrong. Again, the incidence rate I posted is 100% neutral, and 100% agenda free. Stating the percentage increase without stating the original numbers, is a big fat manipulative lie.
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