teddiebears
08-17-2008, 04:30 PM
Hello everyone! :)
Today is the first day of Kathy's quit!! Let's give her a lot of support, okay?? :D WOOHOO!!! YOU GO GIRL!!
"Even at the hardest times I never doubted the whole thing was going to be a totally positive experience." - successful ex-smoker
Hi jingle and joy -- I enjoyed reading your posts to me yesterday. It's nice to see you still around. :)
I went through a real health scare about 5 months ago. I had double pneumonia and with my emphysema it became a very serious situation. :( But I'm MUCH better now - I actually feel better now than I have in a long time (even before I got sick). I do have to use oxygen now if I'm exerting myself at all - like riding my stationery bike, carrying laundry or grocery bags, or walking outside in the heat/humidity. :rolleyes: I knew this day would come, I'm just grateful I don't need the oxygen 24/7 yet. ;)
Here's part of an article that I find very interesting -
What's in a cigarette?
The List of Additives
By Terry Martin, About.com
The list of 599 additives approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see. Submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this list of ingredients had long been kept a secret.
Tobacco companies reporting this information were:
American Tobacco Company
Brown and Williamson
Liggett Group, Inc.
Philip Morris Inc.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
While these ingredients are approved as additives for foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes their properties, often for the worse. Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette, many of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic. Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia are all present in cigarette smoke. Forty-three known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke, or both.
It's chilling to think about not only how smokers poison themselves, but what others are exposed to by breathing in the secondhand smoke. The next time you're missing your old buddy, the cigarette, take a good long look at this list and see them for what they are: a delivery system for toxic chemicals and carcinogens.
Cigarettes offer people only a multitude of smoking-related diseases and ultimately death.
Sources: http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm
http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients_2.htm
http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients_3.htm
Today is the first day of Kathy's quit!! Let's give her a lot of support, okay?? :D WOOHOO!!! YOU GO GIRL!!
"Even at the hardest times I never doubted the whole thing was going to be a totally positive experience." - successful ex-smoker
Hi jingle and joy -- I enjoyed reading your posts to me yesterday. It's nice to see you still around. :)
I went through a real health scare about 5 months ago. I had double pneumonia and with my emphysema it became a very serious situation. :( But I'm MUCH better now - I actually feel better now than I have in a long time (even before I got sick). I do have to use oxygen now if I'm exerting myself at all - like riding my stationery bike, carrying laundry or grocery bags, or walking outside in the heat/humidity. :rolleyes: I knew this day would come, I'm just grateful I don't need the oxygen 24/7 yet. ;)
Here's part of an article that I find very interesting -
What's in a cigarette?
The List of Additives
By Terry Martin, About.com
The list of 599 additives approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see. Submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this list of ingredients had long been kept a secret.
Tobacco companies reporting this information were:
American Tobacco Company
Brown and Williamson
Liggett Group, Inc.
Philip Morris Inc.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
While these ingredients are approved as additives for foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes their properties, often for the worse. Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette, many of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic. Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia are all present in cigarette smoke. Forty-three known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke, or both.
It's chilling to think about not only how smokers poison themselves, but what others are exposed to by breathing in the secondhand smoke. The next time you're missing your old buddy, the cigarette, take a good long look at this list and see them for what they are: a delivery system for toxic chemicals and carcinogens.
Cigarettes offer people only a multitude of smoking-related diseases and ultimately death.
Sources: http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm
http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients_2.htm
http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients_3.htm