Cigarette

This video was created over a one-year period. At first, it was just random use of a video camera, plus a few pictures taken during a visit in September of 2006. Of course, this was before we knew that Mom had a collapsed lung. She went in for tests, and it was discovered that she had Stage IV Lung Cancer. As we learned of the cancer diagnosis in October of 2006, we tried to get Mom down to California (from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada). It was a race against logistics and paperwork (i.e. obtaining documentation in order to cross a border and travel), which we unfortunately lost. Mom suffered a stroke, ironically on the same day as she received her birth certificate, which would have allowed her to travel to Southern California. The stroke left her left side completely paralyzed, and she was stuck in the hospital, no longer the independent woman she once was. We were summoned to fly up immediately, as we were told by her doctors that her death would not be far behind. Mom proved them all wrong, and lived for four more months. Of course, the quality of life was minimal at best. There was no treatment, since the cancer was discovered so late, and due to the stroke. We have since learned that often times, a biopsy can knock loose cancerous material within a tumor, which can cause a stroke. It was extremely difficult to watch her suffering in a hospital bed, and wondering why her last months had to be made that much worse due to the stroke. So, Mom never did get to come see where we live in California. We continued to videotape the entire ordeal, so that family (who couldn’t be with us at that time) could see everything. We ended up with approximately 90 minutes of raw footage, which has been edited down to the 10 minutes allowed here. First, we have done this to honor Mom’s last wishes: tell people not to smoke. Second, we have completed this very emotional project to honor her memory, and to help us as we continue through the grieving process. Finally, we are aware that much of the anti-smoking media is not so real to life–it doesn’t show the suffering, what the families go through, and the pain that cigarettes actually cause. This documentary is “non-Hollywood”. We have omitted certain things that one might find offensive, including her IV, vomiting, bodily functions, and her actual death itself, which was obviously painful. Instead, we have brought many different segments together, which still conveys our overall message: DON’T SMOKE!

In a letter dated September 24, 2006, from Mom:
“Try not to worry about my health. I go for a CAT-SCAN on October 4th. I should have the results about a week later. The appointments are taking a long time, so I must not be in such dire shape, or they would rush them. I’m glad you never really had the desire to smoke. What do your lungs look like after all of those years of second-hand smoke? I can’t wait to see you and Patti more often. Gotta go for now. Love Forever, Mom”

To conclude, one can compare smoking cigarettes to a slow-motion car accident. At any time, you can get out of the car before it crashes. It is your choice. Furthermore, you may be driving your own car, but please remember that you take passengers along for the ride.

Duration : 0:9:58

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I know both of them are really harmful to our lugs and brain. One side smoking make you feel tired after you take it which can cause less efficiency while working and also makes you cough after a long time if not quit. On the other hand, smokess tobacco can cause lung cancer, gum cancer but at least it won’t hamper your efficiency of working. This the infomation I have and I want to know more so need your help. Which one do you think is more dangerous and defective for health.

This is a really tough question, which do you prefer: tongue, cheek, mouth and/or esophageal cancer or lung cancer? Hmmm…sounds like you should just chew gum, buddy!!

Neither is a "good" idea and neither is a correct choice. Smokeless tobacco does hamper your work efficiency, you have to carry a cup around to spit in all the time. I just think you need to consult your doctor about help with tobacco use cessation. Your health is more important than a choice like this.

Consider quitting altogether-I guarantee you’ll feel better God bless!

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The wise saying goes, “Don’t strike. If you strike, strike so hard, that there is no need to strike again.” To add something more, “You may have an hour to suffer. But you have a lifetime to live, live with the ideals which you cherish!”

Here, your cherished ideal is cigarette cessation. This three inch cylinder weighing about 5 gms has bothered you enough. Now is the time to strike hard. Your hour by hour suffering may be for a month. If you pass this test for one month, you have kicked the habit for ever.

This small word with eight syllables NICOTINE- how powerful it is, how it has pinned you down? How many times you wished to come out of the smelly trench, and how each time you slipped down and fell into the cigarette trench again!

Granted that your cigarette cessation desire is strong and your will power is not so strong. As a stop gap arrangement, you tan take recourse to certain cigarette cessation methods. Take NLP for example. NLP means Neuro Linguistic Psychology. This is not a guaranteed method for cigarette cessation, but one of the dependable tools to be of help to a desperate individual like you.

This method alone will not grant you emancipation from the smoking habit. Though, clubbed with other methods, it will definitely produce beneficial results.{mospagebreak}

Your concern and the concern of your close ones in view of your deteriorating health could be another strong reason for cigarette cessation. If cigarette smoking is for enjoyment, should you not live long enough to enjoy that enjoyment? If you are not there, where is your enjoyment? So also, by smoking, you are causing deliberate injury to your health.

But what about your family members, wife and young children who are the victims of your passive smoke? Why should they view your smoke coils? You have no right to cause cancer in them.

Practice the downward spiral method for cigarette cessation. Suppose you are smoking ten cigarettes per day. Make it nine…after a week, make it eight…and after another week seven per day…so on and so forth!

Prohibitive cost of the tobacco, and the merciless taxation on products like cigarette, is another reason for your cigarette cessation. Just think deeply how much money you have squandered to spoil your health by the cigarette smoke. This deep thinking is likely to awaken you. If you get strong but supportive promptings from your trusted friends and well-meaning relatives, this factor also will have deep impact on your cigarette ideas.

Cigarette cessation and smokers are arch rivals. One of them has to win, by destroying the other. Let the strong contender for the non-smoker category win!

Ashish Jain
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/cigarette-cessation-and-smoker-56190.html

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Inside IN Business-Indiana tobacco prev funding & cig taxes

This Inside Indiana Business segment covers the topic of the business and health benefits of funding Indiana’s tobacco prevention program and raising the state’s cigarette tax as two tools to save lives and prevent sickness and health care expenses due to tobacco-related illnesses.

Gerry Dick introduces the segment in which Barb Lewis interviews Karla Sneegas, executive director of Indiana Tobacco Prevention & Cessation Agency, to discuss the health and business impact of tobacco in Indiana and to analyze two vital tobacco policy solutions being considered by Indiana leaders: restoring ITPC’s funding to CDC recommended levels of $35 million and raising the state’s cigarette tax.

From the Inside Indiana Business website: “Governor Daniels is proposing to raise the cigarette tax a minimum of 25 cents per pack. The benefits outlined include a drop in smoking rates, discouraging young people from smoking because of the price of cigarettes. Also, the tax revenue would be used to provide health plans to an estimated 120,000 Hoosiers by creating a new $95 million health plan. In Indiana, an estimated $2.4 billion dollars is lost due to lower productivity by smokers and $2 billion is spent on healthcare costs due to smoking each year.”

Duration : 0:3:32

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