Should smoking become ilegal again?
148065
Sure. Maybe that will give me more reason to quit.
447388
first of all- this is the best thing that you can do for yourself! i hope you stick to it! you deserve to have a healthy long life!\n\nit's different for everyone, but usually the urge to start again will get less extreme after 7 days, and mostly gone by a month. they say it takes 40 days to create a new mind pattern, a new habit.\n\nif you are young and haven't been smoking that long, your body should repair itself from the damage already done fairly quickly, and you will have completely new lungs in 7 years (all the cells will be renewed) you should start to exercise- replacing old bad habits with new healthy ones, plus exercise will really make you feel great mentally as well as physically.\n\nit can help to use the patch, it helped me quit a 10 year 1 pack a day addiction. i don't reccomend niccorette because that can become habit forming as well. be careful where you go and be wary of your triggers. if you always smoke when out with friends at a bar, it may be best to avoid those situations for a while, and ask your friends to support you.\noh, i hear laser therapy is the latest...\nGOOD LUCK- you really are SAVING YOUR OWN LIFE!
772305
Making something illegal does not make it go away, it only financially strengthens the criminals that are willing to risk selling them for a hyper inflated profit.  IOW, instead of 3 bucks/pack, it'll be about 50bucks/pack, and those who smoke will have to deal with a criminal underground network inorder to get them.  \n\nJails will end up with more people, the cops will waste MORE time busting people, courts will be backed up even MORE, and good people will lose their homes, their jobs, and their freedoms.  \n\nVices shouldn't be made illegal.  They should be taxed and regulated so that the government can prosper off other people's wants.  We have the right to do whatever we want to our bodies, including damaging it.  \n\nWhy not outlaw Bungee jumping, sky diving, driving, flying, or anything else that someone might can hurt themselves with?
995349
I'd LIKE for cigs to be illegal...  My husband and sister in law both have asthma, and sometimes have to walk RIGHT PAST smokers to get to the EMERGENCY ROOM.  Hello!?  And my father-in-law died of cancer caused by second-hand smoke in his childhood.  I'd LOVE tobbaco to be illegal.  Will it ever happen?  *hopeless laughter*
39679
My dad quit cold turkey after smoking for over 50 years. If you have the willpower, that's the best way, but for most people, it's a hard thing to do. I suggest you ask your doctor, because there are many remedies out there that can help. There are also smoking sessation classes that you can attend. Check your local paper for events around your area. Good luck!
804379
I have tried twice before and got 46 days the first time and 30 days the second time and used the nicotine gum to do it BUT the most important thing I did and forgot to keep doing therefore I started up again and that was to change people,places and things.\nIn the beginning I stayed away from people who smoked and stayed away from places where I was use to smoking  ie my favorite eating place.Drank water with my meals as I use to drink coffee with my meals and would smoke while drinking coffee before my meal came and after I had finished my meal.\nI avoided my usual smoking break time outside with other employees.\nI tend to be a realy high wired person so as I started out with my efforts to quit smoking I made up my mind to run in low gear and to quit putting pressure on myself and to quit letting others laziness and imperfections bother me and to take it all in stride.\nThe only thing I can figure I did wrong was I got too comfortable with my efforts of not smoking and in doing so I forgot to keep up the work of avoiding familar people,places and things that encouraged my desire to smoke.\nI didn't want to gain the weight that most people say you will do when you quit smoking since we tend to exchange one habit for another so I made sure that I had plenty of fresh fruits and veggies on hand.\nI also made sure that I had plenty of my favorite gum on hand to help me get through those tough moments when the nicotine gum did not seem appealing or when it was too soon to have another piece.\nMy family,friends,employer and fellow employees were very supportive in my efforts.\nMy clothes,my house ,my car started to smell so much and my mouth was losing that bottom of the ashtray taste during my efforts to quit and I intend to quit again. .  . and this time FOREVER!\nPeople will certainly climb your backside for smoking and will rag on you forever but when you quit smoking they rarely give you as much credit or praise. . most of them do not really realize just how hard it is to give up smoking. . they say it is as hard as getting off of heroine so be sure to not let this discourage you. \nOne of the most important things to remember is that you want to quit smoking more than you want to smoke.\n\nThey say that the first 72hours of not smoking is when the nicotine leaves your body so the next time I quit smoking it is going to be cold turkey as I can't afford the gum or the patches for months on end and thusly dragging out the quitting smoking process and I will reminding myself that I want to quit smoking more than I want to smoke.\nI also want to set a good example for my grandchildren who are under the age of 4.(It is extremely hard to explain to my grandchildren why their Grammie smokes.)\n\nGood Luck \n\n\n\nP.S. IF you want some extra support,you can email me.
1151520
I quit seven years ago by changing brands of cigarettes about every two or three months . Each time I changed brands I bought one with less tar and nicotine than the last .when I got to the lowest rated one I could find I smoked them and picked a quiting day and stuck to it . It is very hard to quit ,but it is possible ,Just convince your self you can do it and prove to every one that said you couldn't ,you have a stronger will power than they thought . I tried the patches,pills ,and gums none of them worked . Cold turkey was the only way I managed to quit . If you don't succeed the first time like I did , try again as soon as possible.If I can quit any body can .I smoked for 36 years
1013105
They killed my father. Small cell lung cancer.\nThe government gave them away during WWII.\nIt really promoted them and caused a generation of addicted people.\n\nHowever, you will create smugglers that are not taxed and increase the overloaded court system if you make them illegal. I think that taxation and insurance incentives may be a better way to discourage smoking. Fining smokers for smoking in public places has started and I am sure that more can be done.\n\nI think that loosing the Tax revenues and making this industry go underground would not stop it but make battling the problem more costly. I could be wrong and offer this only as another viewpoint after talking with some Dutchmen about similar issues in their country.\n\nAlso, I do not think that Police will give much priority to laws against smoking cigerettes when they are already overloaded with meth addicts, etc. and understaffed. My cousin is a NARC.
992843
You can try this , cut back but be serious about it. if you smoke a pack go to half until you are use to it. then cut that in half again. do this until you can get to 1 cigarette a day and keep that routine for a year. Now , when you do one a day, you will have stressful days where more than one will seem needed. It's okay to smoke another as long as the next day you go back to just ONE! after a year of one a day, then go to one day off a week without any smoke. after that is easy for you , you are ready to try more days off, until you are without the craving. it's not the nicotine as many think , it's the actual act of smoking that stick that is hard to kick. you need to rehab yourself and time helps. you'll feel much better once your all through, and your skin and hair will show the improvement. God bless.
518600
No...smokers are not going to quit.  What smokers may begin to do is find alternative ways to purchase cigarettes.  Smokers are already way overtaxed, and as states decide to rape them further, they will find cheaper ways to buy cigarettes (over thi internet, in the next state over, have their cousin Vinny send them UPS, etc).  \n\nI simply can't understand the obsession with trying to screw the smoker these days.  Like you said, smokers are one of the largest contributors to the state budget each year. Larger than sales tax, larger than property tax....\n\nI say, let smokers have a break....if you are going to restrict where they are allowed to smoke, you need to reduce the tax...It should be like a usage tax, the less places in a state that smokers are allowed to smoke, the less tax they have to pay!\n\nBTW 'sunny'.....STFU!  Smoking does NOT cost millions in public health care.  Do a little research and you will find that this 2nd hand smoke bunk is nothing but a myth.  The Supremem court overturned the EPA's decision about ETS (2nd Hand SMoke) and called it junk science with no foundation to stand on.
424555
Depends... if smoking weed and drinking beer get in the way of common life things then yes... but if the person can handle everything and drink and smoke all the time then i say let them be because they are not doing anyone harm.  If anything give up the beer.
959398
Simple answer is NO!!! Whatever you smoke,you are introducing,foreign matter,products of combustion,and chemicals into your lungs.As these are very sensitive organs,you stand a very good chance of damaging them very badly.Grit your teeth,kick the habit,and live longer.....................your family deserve that!!!!(By the way,I am an ex-smoker!!!) Cheers mucker, Take it easy,Rob
1095892
No.  If you keep smoking, even if you find a solution, it won't last.
683210
No dear ..It seems that U have been misguided.Nicotine never remains in Lungs..In fact it is absorbed by our pulmonary(lung) veins...so nicotine comes in blood...and this blood when reaches brain, makes nicotine to bind to our brain-nicotinic receptors..which ultimately produces the effects of smokin....But daily smoking  produces some changes in the tissue of lungs which is continous for years can give irreversible lung changes(including cancers)...BUt research has proved n shown that stopping smoking for 10 years approx can bring your lungs to the previous state(non-smoker state)....but this above statement is condition to one thing that in this 10 years , you should'nt have developed the permanent changes..............In all smoking is very bad...But the irony is that I have been smoking for past 6 years....lol
493654
What about it?  Both are conditions that will affect your life severally, and may end it, would not recommend either of them.  Giving up smoking will reduce your chances of suffering from either.
712866
Your risk of several types of cancer are increased, and more so if you have a genetic predisposition to cancer causing cells. Besides that and, of course, the fact that it isn't legal for you to smoke, you are young and the damage you do to your body will reverse itself if you quit. Your are changing your body's ability to breathe, distribute oxygen to your brain and other organs, circulate blood properly and about thirty other things that your body does involuntarily to keep you alive. So, you need to ask yourself, why do you smoke? While at your age some people (also mostly your age) will form a certain opinion about what kind of person you are, once you hit about the twenty to twenty-two age group and older, most people think you just look weak and ignorant for not knowing what you're doing to your body and too lazy to help yourself (much in the same way most people view those who are morbidly obese). The fact that you're smoking such a small amout says to me that you don't need it, you just like it. I know. We can smell our own. When I quit I promised myself I would light up one or two whenever the mood struck me-this idea helped me quit cold turkey. I had one a couple of months later, a few a couple of months after that, another one about six months later, etc. The more time that passes the less I feel like I like it so the less I smoke. But the only reason I ever did smoke was because I liked it, the feel, the flavor, the smell even. If you can't pinpoint why you do it at all-then why do you do it at all?
233555
Yes, it's the old emotional sub-conscious you resurfacing. You remember the good feeling of smoking, maybe the calmness, the buzz, so you crave that safety again - like an old friend.\nIt can take many months for a few people to really get new habits programmed into their mind, but the best thing to do is to have back-ups handy - things to do to take your mind off smoking or the situation that made you crave it. Meditation has proven successful in daily re-inforcing your new non-smoking you, or maybe a new hobby, change of work, friends, scene etc.\nHave a look at the great help at http://www.quitguide.com