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- lennynumberone, on 11/10/2009, -7/+53We hate you too.
- Fygee, on 11/10/2009, -1/+32I had no idea about how much you loved Harley riders.
- backwardscompat, on 11/10/2009, -7/+34Oh man, please be true. Smoking is such a bane.
- queenslife, on 11/10/2009, -3/+29If you want to quit smoking, you have to overcome both the physical and behavioral addiction...
- ldsan, on 11/10/2009, -0/+23very true. i went cold turkey after about 5 years of 10-20 a day. every time i see them i want them. once every few months i may have one, but that's it....then again, that's how they get you. ***** BASTARDS
- borez, on 11/10/2009, -2/+24I'm a lifelong smoker, do I hate it? I don't know, probably yes... will this help, probably as much as the last promising Vaccine and the one before that I tried, and the one before that.
I'm glad it's being eradicated, in fact I think it's a brilliant thing. But until then, well you're gonna have to deal with us, same way I deal with the ***** coming out of your car exhaust every day to be honest.
Feel free to digg me down. Obviously if you don't smoke it'll be a prerequisite. I'm used to it by now. - Laminarcissus, on 11/10/2009, -1/+20I'm a recovering addict, and you actually stumbled into one of the running joke in the addiction community -- "You want to quit? Then just don't use drugs."
It's a joke because it is simultaneously completely true and incredibly stupid.
It is about willpower, but it's not "all" about willpower. It's also about getting help. Recovery is such a heavy weight that it's very few people who can lift it on their own. - mebbin, on 11/10/2009, -4/+23Knowing how much of your smoking is habit and how much is addiction is the huge step toward dismantling and removing both from your life
- scurvydog00, on 11/10/2009, -1/+19Server went on a smoke break...
- TrevorBelmont, on 11/10/2009, -9/+23Smoking is awesome.
- FI5HERMAN, on 11/10/2009, -4/+18To be able to stop smoking, it is important that you should be able to unshackle yourself from the chains of smoking. I struggled for 40 yrs to quit and I beat it, this way may be was easier for others !!!
- KimballO, on 11/10/2009, -2/+14I'm skeptical. But I hope it works.
- Hetman, on 11/10/2009, -1/+1390% of the time type 1 diabetes can be regulated. People just choose not too.
- inagoodcause, on 11/10/2009, -3/+14I hope this vaccine works. It would be such a boon to mankind, and of course, to the smokers, who are so addicted to smoking that even if they try to quit it, it just doesn't work out.
- JediCorran, on 11/10/2009, -20/+31it's all about willpower, either you have it or you don't. just quit.
- provoko, on 11/10/2009, -0/+10Mmmm sweet fags.
- inactive, on 11/10/2009, -0/+9You wish....
- JoshPerson, on 11/10/2009, -6/+15The vaccine won't work unless it makes me feel less cool while smoking...
- EddiePotato, on 11/10/2009, -1/+10They eyes. You cry out the nicotine.
- naner, on 11/10/2009, -1/+10http://rorr.im/digg.com/health/promising_vaccine_f ...
- Laminarcissus, on 11/10/2009, -0/+8So the new standard is that children are expected to make good decisions when global corporations with hundreds of millions of ad dollars to spend are encouraging them not to?
Most smokers became addicted in their early teens, when they first tried smoking. After that it's a treatment problem. - billraydrums, on 11/10/2009, -3/+11Meh...yet another cottage industry to sap $$$ from those who can't seem to kick.
I was a three-pack a day smoker twice in my life. The first time was right before I quit in my 20's (since 12 I had smoked) and the second time was when I quit in 2005 after having toured Europe in my early 30's and getting back into the nicotine rut.
Realize that smoking is a collection of small habits that constitute a ritual. It's not just inhaling the smoke that does you in....It's the flicking of a lighter, the digital satiation of having something in your fingers, the oral thing of having a burning splint in your lip, and the back & forth of inhale/exhale.
The way I quit both times was in increments of 5 minutes. 5 minutes between cravings, between even putting a lighter in my hand. Slowly, I backfilled the rut I had dug myself into. Break down the ritual into it's component habits, realize all the steps in the ritual, and then start attacking them. Be strong and replace a bad habit with a good one. When you want a cig, take deep breaths and start to remember how good it feels to breathe unencumbered.
That's what worked for me. If this helps you then tell a friend who is trying to stop smoking. - AtomicTheory, on 11/10/2009, -4/+12We hate you too.
- borez, on 11/10/2009, -1/+9I wouldn't say I'm cool, more like It's just part of me. Without doubt if I'd never been introduced to cigarettes I would not be a smoker, and... I wish that for future generations this habit will be wiped out.
But... I was and I am, and until us smokers die out... I'd like to be left alone to be honest. A product of a bygone era no doubt... but it's not illegal, and I'm definitely not an outcast. - scuvball, on 11/10/2009, -0/+7I thought it was all about willpower, then my parents who both smoked their whole lives took Chantix. I never thought my dad could quit. He stopped cold and has not had any cravings since. It also screwed with his head and had to quit just two weeks in to the medication, but still the urge never came back.
- psunut5, on 11/10/2009, -1/+8One step closer to "I am Legend!"
- Gonthim, on 11/10/2009, -1/+8You are a cool smoker. It's too bad so many smokers are annoying about it, and that so many non-smokers completely overreact and turn into raving idiots.
- aussiejan, on 11/10/2009, -1/+7Actually it is Type 2 diabetes which can usually be regulated. It used to be called adult-onset diabetes because it was rarely seen in people below the age of 30. Now, of course, there are so many obese children that they are seeing Type 2 in very young children.
Type 1 diabetes is often called juvenile diabetes because it is genetic and usually diagnosed in childhood. I have two cousins with Type 1 - one diagnosed at 10, the other was 14. - EddiePotato, on 11/10/2009, -0/+5Cancer and diabetes can both often be attributed to poor dietary/lifestyle choices (not always, but often). Should we only fund research for diseases suffered by people who eat lots of fruits and veggies, don't drink alcohol, and exercise every day?
- Brandynp, on 11/10/2009, -0/+5mirror:
http://rorr.im/digg.com/health/promising_vaccine_f ... - fridyrls, on 11/10/2009, -2/+7mirror? Its already down....
- piieerrrree, on 11/10/2009, -2/+7don't hate the player, hate
the game - pilgrim3970, on 11/10/2009, -1/+5I quit a nearly 2 pack a day habit cold turkey 13 years ago. Decided that I was not going to be controlled by the smokes. Also got it in my head that I am not an EX-smoker, but that the moment after I put out that last cigarette, I was a NON-smoker. Honestly, the first 48 hours were the most difficult - after that, it was nothing. Haven't touched a cigarette since.
- fatalvoices, on 11/10/2009, -1/+5I need a cigarette.
- Outofthenight, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4Moz34 - "But, please stop with the car comparisons: you can smoke any place where a car is allowed to exhaust its fumes. If you were not allowed to smoke in a place where a car *is* allowed to exhaust fumes, I'd agree that it's a crazy situation. Unless you can point out situations where this is a case, it's just an invalid comparison."
Where I live you can't smoke in most taxis, or in the designated outdoor areas where taxis queue, even while those cars are belching their exhaust from oft ill-maintained engines. You also can't smoke in outdoor bus terminals, even though the walls are black from years of exhaust buildup. Train platforms, also outdoors, same deal. The trains produce a lot of foul exhaust right beside where you wait, but light up a smoke? You're a criminal. - zulelord, on 11/10/2009, -3/+7Hi, welcome to America. Pharmaceuticals are about making money, not helping people.
- gordigor, on 11/10/2009, -2/+6I like to smoke.
- sugarazor, on 11/10/2009, -1/+5Horrendous headline. If people want to smoke, that's their decision, it's not "horrendous." It's nice to see that options are available to help people that want to quit, but the headline just makes me roll my eyes.
- amorphousform, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3As a very wise man once told me: "If it doesn't get you high, don't smoke it."
- cajungator3, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Smoking mobsters
- DiggCrusher, on 11/10/2009, -1/+4I'm sure the anti-vaxers will think this will give their kids autism too...
- Peleus, on 11/10/2009, -4/+7I wonder how long it will take big tobacco to crush this.
- latinjones, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Was that the first time you tried to quit smoking? You had a major life changing experience and that was the driving factor that made you decide to quit smoking. Not everyone has that perspective. Besides, you sound like you quit smoking fairly recently. Maybe you're not out of the woods yet.
- ldsan, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3thanks for being supportive ass hole
- latinjones, on 11/10/2009, -1/+4Well, if you don't have it (willpower) how can you "just quit"? There's no black and white measurement of a persons willpower.
Smokers have to want to quit, try to quit, and keep trying if they fail. That is willpower. Failing to quit cold turkey doesn't mean a person has no willpower. I just don't see where you're coming from. This sounds like a good option for people who want to quit. - borez, on 11/10/2009, -1/+4"please stop with the car comparisons:"
I can walk across London and feel scummy, filthy, polluted and out of breath from car fumes, just the same way you may feel if you were stood around a smoker.
Filthy pollution is filthy pollution... regardless of where it comes from my friend. - swiftsurfere, on 11/10/2009, -3/+6Let me try this first of all only then I can believe ....
- fragomatik, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Here's an example: you can't smoke in underground car-parks. I can understand why smokers who don't drive (I used to be one) resort to the "car defence" when challenged by a vocal anti-smoker. I've personally witnessed an anti-smoker abuse a smoker, and then drive off in his SUV, without a second thought. Smoking is bad, but its not as polluting as those gas-guzzling monstrosities.
- PhoenixReborn, on 11/10/2009, -1/+4Why?
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