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I have been smoking since I was 10 years old. That was 10 years ago. What are some of the cheap & easiest ways to stop smoking and get into better health?
I also live with smokers and ride with 2 smokers to work. I am always around it.

It is very difficult to quit but you can…You should get a MRI of your lungs. You should also google a question pictures of lungs due to long term smoking..Some people do it cold turkey. Others do the patch, or nicotine gum. have heard also there is a pill out there that helps..You can’t undo any damage you have, but you can prevent further damage. Have you ever seen someone who has died because of smoking? I have it was my mother. Good luck!!!!

I cannot use any stop smoking aids, ie the patch or gum etc… any good methods on how to quit smoking?

Make sure you surround yourself with support from before your quit date arrives. I found online forums most useful as we were all experiencing the same thing. I’m proud to say I’m now over 3 months quit.

Good luck with it and below I’ve provided a link to one of the great sites I found most helpful.

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Images of smokers smoking cigarettes… glamorous right? Think again! There’s several ways to quit smoking, when you’re really ready!

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From MIT News – web.mit.edu/newsoffice

The Future of medical insurance in the US.

Just over a week ago, passage of a landmark federal health-care bill seemed a dead certainty. But the flip of a single U.S. Senate seat has changed all that, leaving the Democratic Party highly uncertain about how – or whether – to proceed. Given the current flux in Washington, a panel of MIT health-care experts assembled yesterday to assess the situation, often hammering home the idea that political half-measures will yield little in tangible health-care results.

“You can’t break this bill apart and have it work,” said MIT economist Jonathan Gruber. “It’s all or nothing at this point. The Democrats, and essentially the president, have to decide if they’re willing to go for it all, or are willing to live with nothing.”

First, though, Gruber, a central architect of the Massachusetts health-care system that has served as the model for the congressional legislation, acknowledged his extreme chagrin over the political reversal that accompanied Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown’s victory last week in the special election to replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. “My kids are like, ‘Why are you so sad, daddy?’” said Gruber, speaking at The Stata Center. “I explained, ‘Imagine you worked on a term paper for a year, and you were about to hand it in, when someone turned off your computer and you lost all your work.’”

Brown’s victory has caused multiple fractures among Capitol Hill Democrats. Some legislators want to drop the health-care effort entirely; others say Congress should only pass popular portions of it, such as making it illegal to deny insurance based on pre-existing conditions; and still others want to reconcile the existing, separate health-care bills already passed by the House and Senate.

Gruber made it clear he favors the last position, telling the audience the healthcare plan is like “a three-legged stool,” and “doesn’t work unless you have all three legs.” Those three pieces are reform of insurance markets (including banning those denials of coverage based on pre-existing conditions), the existence of an individual mandate requiring everyone to have insurance, and subsidies to make insurance affordable for low-income people.

For instance, simply allowing people with pre-existing conditions to sign up for insurance, Gruber argued, would be ineffective by itself. In that scenario, more people with pre-existing conditions would have coverage, rates would rise and lead healthy people to drop out of the insurance markets, and to compensate for those healthy people dropping out, insurance companies rates would raise rates further.

A hidden benefit of health insurance: Innovation

Yet even if a large-scale health-care bill passes, cutting health-care costs remains the “$2 trillion question,” said panelist Joseph Doyle, an economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Many observers have noted in the last year that regional disparities in health-care expenditures around the U.S. have nonetheless yielded similar patient-care results. But Doyle’s own research in Florida suggests otherwise. The city of Fort Lauderdale spends 30 percent more on heart patients than West Palm Beach, he stated, but has a mortality rate that is 30 percent lower. Instead, Doyle said, we would perhaps be better served by, among other things, incentives for hospitals to avoid care problems like re-hospitalization for the same illnesses: “Nobody likes to go back to the hospital.”

Still, as MIT economist Amy Finkelstein pointed out in her remarks, the value of universal health-care coverage goes beyond the medical services rendered. The introduction of Medicare in 1965, a subject she has studied in detail, produced “a dramatic decline in the share of the elderly with large out-of-the-pocket payments,” Finkelstein said, meaning that it left more senior citizens in better financial shape than they would have been without Medicare.

Moreover, Finkelstein argued, Medicare went hand-in-hand with an increase in technological innovation in the health-care sector (from procedures to devices to drugs), a scenario that could be repeated if a serious bill is passed by this Congress. “If you have insurance, the idea that whatever happens to people who are uninsured isn’t going to affect you is a very misleading notion,” Finkelstein explained. “When you increase the share of the population with insurance, you increase the market size for these technologies, and you almost surely increase the pace of development of these technologies in the future.”

But will any bill at all emerge from Congress? Political scientist Andrea Louise Campbell sounded a skeptical note. “The American political system is very status-quo-oriented,” she said, with a lot of “veto points,” such as the current Senate convention that the Democrats need 60 votes to pass the legislation.

Those 60 votes would not be necessary if Congress elected to use the reconciliation process, which would essentially mean that the House would pass the Senate bill, then have both branches of Congress modify it, which would require just 51 Senate votes in the end. Yet as Campbell noted, that would still be difficult: 47 Democratic House members represent districts that the Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, carried in the 2008 presidential election, and may be unwilling to back any health-care bill at this point.

Alternately, Campbell suggested, those representatives might prefer to pass popular-sounding segments of the health-care bill, like lifting the pre-existing conditions blockage, even if the policy results seem dubious. “What might be feasible politically, might be disastrous economically,” Campbell said. “They might pick out certain features without the counterbalancing features that make the whole package work. That might end up accelerating the unraveling of the system.”

my friend is looking into ways to stop smoking and I was looking for things to help her out, all of it is really expensive.
Is there anything that is a little more affordable.
She’s 15, she really can’t afford 60$ patches.

I know, right? But if you figure it out, it’s about the same cost as the cigarettes. It’s too bad someone doesn’t sell them a day at a time the way they sell cigs.

I was recently diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma and sometime in the near future I’ll be meeting with an oncologist and starting treatment. I want to quit smoking to help my situation, but I don’t know the best way to go about it. Quitting cold turkey would obviously be a good idea, but I honestly don’t think I’m capable of doing that. I’ve used patches successfully before, but it took a matter of months to quit that way. I’m not very familiar with nicotine gum, prescription stop-smoking aids, or anything else that may be out there. I’d like to quit a.s.a.p. to avoid becoming sicker during treatment. I’m also concerned about interactions between a stop-smoking aid and chemo/radiation therapy, if my method of quitting did need to take place while I was being treated. Any suggestions or info would mean a lot…

Ask the oncologist office what they would suggest..here are some links on Hodgkins and some books for info…Stay AHEAD of any nausea with the anti-nausea pills (if given to you). Once you are nauseous, you won’t even want to look at a pill.

Adult Hodgkins

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_is_Hodgkins_disease_20.asp

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2_3x.asp?rnav=cridg&dt=20

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/hodgkinslymphoma

http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_page?item_id=7085

http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_page?item_id=8312

http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics/types/hodgkinslymphoma

3 books on disease symptoms and treatments

you could also get these books on ebay or amazon or a half price book store. (last two are very similar)..
1.Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
2.Handbook of Diseases (Lippencott)
3.Professional Guide to Diseases (Springhouse)

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About 90 percent of cigarette smokers in the United States try to break the habit. Most fail. But now there are some tools and some research-backed methods to help people quit. VOA’s Carol Pearson has more.

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If you are young and smoking, stop now, for the love of god.

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Affirmations combined with powerful photos to train your subconscious mind to want to quit smoking. Smoking does not calm your nerves, it makes you more nervous and anxious. Smoking does not help you think better or concentrate – it restricts the blood vessels which is very bad for your brain function. Time to come out of denial, admit the addiction and that the Merchant of Death – the tobacco corporations want you to believe quitting smoking is super difficult and most people fail. Not true. 90% of people who quit smoking,do so without nicotine replacement or even a quit date. We are very blessed to have many areas of support to encourage us to quit smoking – and stay quit. Check out www.whyquit.org, www.way2quit.com, I have been smober over 8 weeks, 9 weeks this coming Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. I celebrate my freedom from the nasty addiction to smoking cigarettes. YOU too can stop smoking – with the 4 Ds – Delay, Distract, Drink Water & Deep Breathe. Smoking a cigarette never “fixes” anything, and that next cigarette could be the one that kills you.

I now have more than 90 days SMOBER (sober from smoking addiction) and thank heaven, it was jussta in time! On October 16, 2008, I underwent bilateral cardiac bipass and was on life support for five hours meaning a machine was circulating my blood and breathing for my lungs. Coughing after having my sternum/chest cracked or belching or sneezing is the most excruciating pain. Yes, heart disease is hereditary – but smoking makes your arteries in your heart cramp and spasm, you have way too much carbon monoxide in your blood and in your brain. When you suck on a cigarette, it would be healthier to suck on the exhaust pipe of an automobile. There are over 4,000 poisonous chemicals in each cigarette! Nicotine is a PESTICIDE – are you trying to poison or kill yourself, because everytime you light up and take a puff, that is what you are doing. It is so simple. It is so easy. When you commit 100% that smoking is no longer an option, you delay, distract, deep breathe or drink water, suck on a straw cut the size of a cigarette and you pray and beg and give it to God! Anything is better for you than a cigarette! Go for a walk, take a shower, brush your teeth, clean your tongue and be so thankful YOU ARE FREE from the Merchants of Death who entrapped you in the most horrid addiction that not only harms and can kill you, but harms and can and will surely kill anyone inhaling your second hand smoke. Anyone who tries to tell me they enjoy it, I say BULLSHIT – that is denial. What part do you enjoy, the burning in your throat and up your nostrils? The stench on your breath or clothing? The filthy ashtrays filled with black tar and stinking cigarette butts? I am not being harsh on you – I remember all too well! Rent or buy, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING starring Aaron Eckhart – it is a great comedy filled with truths about the tobacco industry, he is brilliant and you will “wake up” to how big tobacco tricks you, brainwashes you into thinking it is so hard to quit smoking! That is the grand hoax. OH, and for those who wail and whine this is their freedom of choice, again I say BULLSHIT, you are an addict and a liar – All addicts lie. I had quit for five years when I lit a cigarette for a friend on the beach on Bali because his hands were wet from surfing. The next day, I lit another friend’s cigarette – the next day, I lit another friend’s cigarette, then I bummed a cigarette and smoked it. The next day I bought a pack of Dunhill Cigarettes and the next day after that I bought a carton of cigarettes. 23 YEARS LATER, I quit on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 cold turkey and it was so gentle. It was so easy! I calculated the approximate amount of money I spent on cigarettes in those 23 years and it was $47,000 USA DOLLARS. I remember promising myself, I will quit for New Year’s Eve, or as a gift for my birthday, or tomorrow or next week, or next month or when life is not so stressful! That is the addiction bargaining and tricking you! There is a twelve-step program called Nicotine Anonymous in the USA, www.nicotine-anonymous.org or you may visit my web site www.jussta.com

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Upon registering for an auto insurance policy, you will be asked a plethora of questions. They will firstly want to know when you got your driver’s license, how many accidents you have had and who else will be driving your motor vehicle. Regardless of what you tell the company, most of their information comes from their computer system, where all your driving history and license information has been loaded into a general database for these sorts of purposes. The insurance company will also be able to determine whether or not you have a criminal record and a good credit report.

In addition to all the knowledge they can find on you as a driver, they will also have pre-specified information on the type of car you are insuring. The insurance company will ask you what make and model of car you are driving, and if your car has a good security system such as an alarm or immobilizer. No matter what you have told your car insurance company about your motor vehicle, they already have prerequisites about it on their system. For example, they will know whether or not the vehicle you are driving is a popular target for theft, or whether it is infamous for being in collisions. The safety standards of your car will also be on their system too.

The insurance assessment of your motor vehicle is imperative! Your cover will not be complete until you have had your car assessed. When you take your car to be assessed by your insurance company, they can verify that you are actually driving the make and model which you said you were. Furthermore, they will be able to tell whether there are any dents and scratches on your car already, so that you do not claim from them for damages that were not caused by a future collision or theft attempt. Also, if you have had your car’s CD player insured, they will want to check whether or not you have the right radio for the value you have stipulated. Your existing alarm and security system will also be taken into consideration.

Having your car assessed is not something that you can put off, because it is the sealing deal and ensuring your car is completely covered.

If ever you are striving to enhance your physical fitness and strength, you need to select a gym routine which fulfills your exact requirements. Your personal fitness objectives will establish the kind of workouts which you require. For example if you want to increase your cardio fitness, you are going to require a routine primarily based on aerobic workouts, whereas should you be seeking to build muscle mass, you’ll require a routine that includes weight lifting routines.

Weight training routines are created to develop power in your muscles via a series of workouts designed to focus on various parts of your body. Numerous people make the error of trying to focus on only a single particular part of their body. Doing this will make your gym workouts ineffective over time, as your body will learn the exercises you perform, and will adapt how it operates to lower the amount of strain that is placed on the muscular tissues.

In order to build muscle mass, you must stress the muscle and stress it a bit further than its present capacity each time you workout. In case you are doing the same workout over and over, you will educate your muscle tissue how to do those same exercises in such a way in which it will become very hard for you to strengthen your physique. This is why having different workouts is really important.

If you are out of shape and in need of physical exercise, start off slowly to avoid injury. Start off with very simple sit ups to work your abdominal muscles, then lift light weights to work both of your arm muscles. Neck and shoulder stretches should be used to strengthen this part of your body, and running could be employed to build your cardiovascular performance and leg strength. There are many various workouts that you can do. Look for workouts which are easy to begin with and that you simply like. This will make certain that you create the routine of exercising, which will go a long way in ensuring you keep up your regime.

Once you have got your body accustomed to physical exercise once again, you are able to begin to tailor your gym workout to your individual objectives. You can make the aerobic training a lot more intense by raising speeds and inclines to seriously get your heart pumping, this will strengthen your heart muscle making it healthier.

If you want to firm up your body you can increase your weight training reps and gradually raise the weights you use. On the other hand, if you would like to develop muscle mass, you can keep with smaller sets and reps, but instead work on lifting heavier weights, starting your work out with your bigger muscle groups and working down to your smaller muscles.

Im in high school and my friends at school are also friends with the pot heads (not stereotyping I know they smoke weed) and ever since they started hanging out with them they are always talking about smokin weed and when they want to do it next. Me and the rest of my friends have been trying to get them to stop and they don’t think there is a good reason to stop. I want to keep being friends with them but I hate drugs. Please help!!! I want my friends back to the way they were when they didn’t do drugs and were cool.

Dont Stress about something like weed now if they are doing something like crack or Ice or scrips then get concerned…Weed isnt bad only bad if there doing it all day 24/7…sounds like to me you need to blaze everyone smoked it at one time or another and you only live once so dont hold back…if they wanna do it thats kool if you dont thats kool not a reason to lose a friend..burn a bridge over it. I have friends that smoke and others that dont and im not judgmental of it unless my friends are doing it 24/7 but they dont it more like a social thing with em but dude i dont know what you should do sounds to me you sould just be more open to them because they may need a friend

Ive tried the patches and the gums and lozenges none help. My doctor wont give me anything? My emotions are out of control.im so depressed i cant stand it.

Why won’t your doctor give you anything?

There is a prescription drug…Wellbutrin…that works. It is also an anti-depressant…might help in that department as well.

Good luck with quitting. I just stopped smoking cold turkey in the beginning of August.

From time immemorial, wild animals have provided inspiration for artists. In Africa, this is typified by the rock art or “bushman paintings” of the ancient San people.

Today, with the ever-expanding world population encroaching each day on the natural habitat of wild animals, more and more species are under threat, with some now critically endangered. Fortunately there are many conservation-minded people around the world who realize the importance of preserving what’s left of our wildlife.

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