A question i came upon while drinking water

[Kal]

I was going to post something like that...

To be fair smoking is one of those things I wish I'd never have started but I did so I just got to live with it...

Still 5 weeks 2 days 11 hours and 54 minutes free and clear now...

[Big B]

three days shy of ten months. best thing i ever did. it gets easier kal.

[storysunfolding]

Nobody was a lifeguard but me eh?

Chances are you didn't get much down your lungs, but there are cases in swimming when someone messes up in the water or turns to breathe into a wave and gets half a mouthful to a mouthful of water in their lungs. They cough, they choke and they get miserable for awhile. Unfortunately they think they're fine. Then hours later they pass out and then a few hours later they die.

What happens is the water blocks oxygen from being absorbed in the lungs. Then it's like unplugging a laptop and watching the battery level drop. Your body can't get enough oxygen in for the amount it's expending. Eventually your cells start losing efficiency and you pass out, then you starve of oxygen and you die.

This happens most often after someone goes to bed because the water can then cover a greater surface area preventing even more cells from absorbing O^2. It's always worth getting checked out and if you start feeling abnormally tired get to help fast.

[Kal]

I'm doing fine except that I want to feed everyone that annoys me into one of these...




Oh yeah, everytime someone winds me I am picturing me feeding them into one of these feet first...

[Big B]

how'd that go?

oh yeah,

kal wrote

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just remember to follow your own advice!

[Loonette]

This is a picture of how tar your average smoker* has hanging around in their lungs...



Eventually this tar will be worked out, but it takes about a decade.

** I now want a cigarette

I've got about five more years to go until my lungs are cleared out then. And I definitely DO NOT want a cigarette. The lungs are amazingly resilient - thus, we are able to abuse them for many, many years. But the effects are pretty detrimental in the end.

Hang in there, Kal - you will get to a point where a cigarette is the last thing you'll want.

Cheers,
Loonette

[Loonette]

I've been smoking for years, and I can run indefinitely without falling over and wheezing.

yeah, but you're only seventeen, right cam? put another ten years on the clock and you'll be singin' a different tune.

Is that true?! You're only 17 and think you've been smoking a long time?! I smoked for 20 years before quitting, and my mom, at age 59, had been smoking for 50 years! It has wrecked her - almost killed her this year with various diseases (none of them were even cancer). Now she has had to quit to save her own life, and that feels like death to her in-and-of itself. If you can stand to quit now, then do so - there is no benefit to smoking, and it will only bring agony into your future.

I will now step off the soap box - the "mom" in me just couldn't resist.

Cheers,
Loonette

[Sev]

It takes an equal amount of time to clean the crap out of your lungs that you spent putting it in. So if you smoked for 20 years, it'll take about 20 years to get all that stuff cleaned out... after you stopped smoking.

Yikes!

[Loonette]

It takes an equal amount of time to clean the "crumb" out of your lungs that you spent putting it in. So if you smoked for 20 years, it'll take about 20 years to get all that stuff cleaned out... after you stopped smoking.

Yikes!

Well then, I would have 15 more years to go. But I've always heard that it's 10 years. Doesn't matter really - lots of people who smoked, then quit (even quit for a lot of years) still get lung cancer. I didn't quit to avoid lung cancer - I might get that anyway. I quit to have a better quality of life. It feels good to breathe again.

Cheers,
Loonette

[camthepyro]

Loonette Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:37 am Post subject:

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Big B wrote:
camthepyro wrote:
I've been smoking for years, and I can run indefinitely without falling over and wheezing.


yeah, but you're only seventeen, right cam? put another ten years on the clock and you'll be singin' a different tune.


Is that true?! You're only 17 and think you've been smoking a long time?! I smoked for 20 years before quitting, and my mom, at age 59, had been smoking for 50 years! It has wrecked her - almost killed her this year with various diseases (none of them were even cancer). Now she has had to quit to save her own life, and that feels like death to her in-and-of itself. If you can stand to quit now, then do so - there is no benefit to smoking, and it will only bring agony into your future.

I will now step off the soap box - the "mom" in me just couldn't resist.

Cheers,
Loonette

Yeah, I started smoking when I was like 12. And I quit all the time, lol, but always end up starting again when something in my life goes wrong, because I get all depressed and stressed out.