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Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

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  • #21
    Re: Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

    I thank you.

    NOW, not to be a downer, but, my friend's dad ALWAYS smoked. (He wasn't Armo at all, btw, but, I include this because it STILL freaks me out.) Now, just by the past tense of all this, you know it's not going to be good. Anyway, he would ALWAYS have a cup of coffee and a cigarette in his hands.

    In December, he was complaining about headaches and such. He went to the doctors who told him it was a virus, he has a cold (because he was a teacher), take this prescription, he'll be fine.

    FFwd to March. Late Feb/Early March, he gets rushed to the hospital; turns out, he has lung cancer...that spread to his brain and everywhere else vital in his body. When he was first diagnosed, he was told he has 6 months to live. Two weeks later (the doctors kept telling him that he had less & less time to live) he was gone. He was...not older than 64, I think. VERY young man.

    I say this because this REALLY freaked me out, not only was he young...ish, but, my friend and her mom had to deal with this out of nowhere. To have your dad one day and then less than a month later, gone, although, they chose to keep him company as he was suffering in the hospital, so, they had to watch the man deteriorate.

    My friend is a year younger...356 days, actually, than me. She is pretty tough and VERY cool and doesn't typically share herself; she's just not an outgoing person BUT, she was VERY uncomfortable with this situation and THAT is what freaked me out. She couldn't just laugh it off. She couldn't put it behind her and I kinda look up to her as far as decorum and such. Her being upset about it REALLY upset me. It was just...too real.

    This is the first time I really had to deal with it. I KNEW smoking was bad and it killed, I just never thought it would kill HIM. ...I hate mortality.

    I smoke on occasion (maybe, once every six months I will buy a pack...never finish it...) but, seriously, if you can't do it in moderation, you seriously should quit. I know I can't tell you what to do and IF you can't do it for yourself, remember the people you WILL leave behind.

    I hate getting all whiney late at night.

    I will pray for you that you are successful in quitting this time. Good luck & God bless.

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    • #22
      Re: Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

      It's sad but so true, smoking effect ppl differently. The other day I heard this guy died of Emphysema at the age of 25. So yea, definitely quitting my b'day is the deadline

      every day I am going to post here and say How I am going and bore you guys haahha

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      • #23
        Re: Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

        Originally posted by Crissy
        It's sad but so true, smoking effect ppl differently. The other day I heard this guy died of Emphysema at the age of 25.
        BLAH!!!!! *jibblies*

        Originally posted by Crissy
        So yea, definitely quitting my b'day is the deadline

        every day I am going to post here and say How I am going and bore you guys haahha
        Or xxxxx at us. "xxxx YOU ALL I NEED NICOTINE!"....but, I hope it doesn't come down to that.

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        • #24
          Re: Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

          LOOL trust me i'll refrain from using words such as (lost of stars) hahaha

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          • #25
            Re: Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

            I used to smoke too, a few a day (not a few packs but just a few cigarettes) but I finally quit ten years ago.
            I know many who smoke and don’t care to quit. I have three cousins (well had three cousins) in Armenia until one of them succumbed to lung cancer a few months ago and died. As sad as this was, it isn’t as sad as the fact that my other two cousins don’t quit!!!
            They say if you have to go you go, I tell them we all have to go but they are rushing it, not to mention how much harm they are causing others around them with their second hand smoke.
            The bottom line is that it takes a WILL POWER to quit. Talk is cheap but the action is difficult and many who say they will quit don’t. In their minds they come up with all sorts of excuses to continue. So to all of you who claim that you will quit, I truly hope success.

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            • #26
              Re: Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

              Alby agree with what you say, it does take great will power to quit. I am positive I can do is as I don't smoke that much anyways and have gone without smoking for years at a time.

              that's it I am having my own quit smoking thread, it's going to be my diary hahaha.

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              • #27
                Re: Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

                And then you have those people who smoke all their lives and live to be nearly 100. And they die of something totally unrelated like a car accident.

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                • #28
                  Re: Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

                  Ok I had posted this before but my internet access is so poor that I dont believe it posted on here. So here I go again. Smokeing is stupid. My mother was a cancer patient and a smoker. She went through the whole chemo and radiation treatment and therepy. It really scared me, she was soooo fragile. Its one thing to hear about someone who you dont know that has or has had cancer but when cancer looks at you in the face through the eyes of a loved one, in this case my mother, its like a slap in the face of reality. Smokeing is stupid and sick. I am ready to quit.

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                  • #29
                    Re: Armenia National Geographic smoking statistics

                    My parents smoke since they're 16...my dad, learned from his dad, who died of consequences of alcoholism and he used to smoke like a chimney...so does my dad (he doesnt drink though). My mom quit 2 years ago, and as she says, she got her life back and now she's able to exercise without stoping to catch her breath all the time. My brother and I CAN"T STAND smoking. Whenever they smoked in the house, we would just walk up to them, take the cigarette and throw it away. They never said a word, because they know it's disrespectful to smoke near (in this case inside the same house) someone who doest like it.

                    I wish my dad would stop...I have sent him all kinds of nicotin gums, patchs and wherever else is out there, but it never works...I think that first of all he needs to stop drinking coffee, because he only smokes after drinking his expresso...and so does everyone else in my Armenian side of the family...maybe it's in the blood...

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