you'd seen what I saw today...
Slices of different smokers lung tissue riddled with cancer...urgh.
Nope, no way....****ing awful. They really are like the pictures you see on the internet. What were we thinking? How smokers even manage to breathe with all those carbon deposits is beyond me...besides the level of destruction of lung tissue!
Anyways....smokers lungs are as bad as you think they are and worse. SO DON'T SMOKE.
Lisa x
Now this is the sort of reading that I find hits a nerve.
I have become immune to cigarette packet pictures now. Adverts on the TV all seem to be geared towards NRT and not about the actual effects of smoking. And I probably miss all the hard hitting documentaries because I'm too busy with Corrie.
In fact now I think about it there's a lot of info on quitting but nothing to scare us into doing it. The reasons seem to have got lost in the campaigns.
Anyway, I'm waffling. What I wanted to say was can you tell me more. How did you see it, did you know anything about the history of the person whose lungs they were, how many years does that type of damage take etc. I know I can get these facts and figures from the net but I never really believe all I read. Hearing it from people I know means it will be honest an in no-ones favour.
Jings, a bit at odds with the earlier direction you wish the forum to take:
People criticise the forum for being slushy but I think that's what it should be here for.
But if it's anecdotal information that you are trying to avoid then the best solution, if you wish to shock yourself into a quit...and it certainly seems that way, would be to get down to the cancer ward of your local hospital. Or volunteer in the nearest hospice.
But Karri,
If you didn't want to stop smoking, surely you wouldn't be here??
I have become immune to cigarette packet pictures now. Adverts on the TV all seem to be geared towards NRT and not about the actual effects of smoking. And I probably miss all the hard hitting documentaries
Agree that adverts all seem to be geared to NRT :confused: AND I was immune to cig pack pics till my foot started going numb. But it still took me a year to do anything about it :rolleyes: but when I did my foot started feeling better. Relapsed twice since then though, but back on day 2 today.
Sorry Karri, I am rambling bigtime here :rolleyes: but I have had two 'reasonable quits' and hope to do better, and want the best for you too.
TC Karri,
Zoe xx
We can do this whatever!!
Well we can Karri!!
I am a bit wobbly tonight, got no cigs in tonight, cos its my friends funeral tomorrow, and can't continue this conversation cos my mum just textd me an i lost my fone . Wish you all the best Karri loves ya
Zoe xx
Hi Zoe,
Firstly sorry for your loss. Please don't smoke over this. I have lost three quits over deaths and funerals of close family members and regret every one of them. Your friend would want you to be strong and not give in now I am sure.
Gaynor x
Lisa - a friend of mine seen something similar and quit just like that...
Karri - you are still smoking right? Therefore addicted to nicotine? Can you not see that it is the addiction that is making you you create excuse after excuse as to why you cannot quit? This time it's because you have read too much right?? If you really want to quit smoking Karri and you have read so much then you will understand that the addiction to quit nicotine is what is mushing the brain to make excuses to not stop (which we have all done) the reasons we do this is becasue we are scared of stopping and/or scared that our quits will succeed and again this is the addiction that does this to us. After 4 days of not smoking and not being subject to passive smoking, the nicotine would have completely gone from your system and then it is a case of battling the pyschological dependancy which this darn drug and addiction had caused us to create. Tobacco companies must be having a right good laugh at us...surely they are the only retailers in the world that can sell consumers something that is likely to kill them :eek: and the health warnings on packets I personally don't think it's for our benefit...it's so that they can't be sued...they know an addict is not going to take no notice of health warnings as their brain is under the influence of the addiction and all the addict will do is make excuses.
I know I am early days of my quit and yes I have struggled and probably will always have days when I struggle as I will always be someone that used to smoke...but I think that after numerous attempts at quitting this is going to be my forever quit as I have seen the light and the thing that has helped me to see that is reading...knowledge truely is power. And I hope Karri that one day you see the light too but don't leave it too long :rolleyes:
All the best 
Hiya Karri,
I saw this stuff through work...my speciality is in another field but a co-worker is being seconded into a histology lab. So he was presenting to the rest of us what it is like working in another lab in an unrelated field. He's been there for months....the topic of his presentation was lung cancer. He also bought slides in for us to look at and photographs of the lung tissue where the slides were taken from. The presentation did have statistics for smoking related diseases but I assume they're similar to the ones you'd see on the internet. He didn't really go into details such as the age of the smokers from where the tissue had come from. The whole thing just really cemented my quit as I knew the slides and photographs were from recent, real smokers and I knew that in 10-20 years time my lungs might be a topic of discussion amongst medics *shudder*!
Keep trying Karri, we're all there for you.
lisa x
..I've read so much of it I've conditioned myself to expect the most horrendous time for the first 6 months of quitting...
I wouldn't read that one again if I was you, I'm not convinced that's a no-smoking document!
