Comments on: A Video Collection of Reasons to Quit Smoking http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/ Specialization is for Insects. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:29:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: LRL http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-41428 LRL Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:08:14 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-41428 Well I'm a vegetarian and I don't smoke, though I don't see how the two are related unless your ex went veg for health reasons as oppose to moral ones. Well I’m a vegetarian and I don’t smoke, though I don’t see how the two are related unless your ex went veg for health reasons as oppose to moral ones.

]]> By: Robert C. http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34583 Robert C. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:19:24 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34583 My favorite type of diacotomy is with vegtarians who have a tobacco habit.. I went out with a girl many years ago who would not have a hamburger - but smoked a pack a day. I never really got a straight answer as to why she found the occassional steak more harmful then lighting up. I guess the tobacco leaf is all natural, and plant based? (LOL!) Robert C.. My favorite type of diacotomy is with vegtarians who have a tobacco habit..

I went out with a girl many years ago who would not have a hamburger – but smoked a pack a day.

I never really got a straight answer as to why she found the occassional steak more harmful then lighting up.

I guess the tobacco leaf is all natural, and plant based? (LOL!)

Robert C..

]]> By: Saim Baig http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34546 Saim Baig Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:51:15 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34546 I have always disliked smoking.I my self stopped my grandfather & uncle from smoking.In my family people always say that This is the "Anti Smoking guy". I have always disliked smoking.I my self stopped my grandfather & uncle from smoking.In my family people always say that This is the “Anti Smoking guy”.

]]> By: Rhoody http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34485 Rhoody Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:20:18 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34485 evrybody who was never adicted to smoking should be very happy. I am a smoker gave up for years, started again... yeah that sucks, I never have a problem on long flights. I dont smoke in my diveshop the whole day, I go to restaurants with friends.. no smoking, but for whatever reason I don't give up. Those videos won't touch any smoker, but non-smoker have something to talk about. Maybe I give it another try this year to become a non-smoker, but I love a black, strong-strong coffee and a cigarette at 6 in the morning watching the sun rising out of the deep blue ocean Rhoody evrybody who was never adicted to smoking should be very happy.
I am a smoker gave up for years, started again… yeah that sucks,
I never have a problem on long flights. I dont smoke in my diveshop the whole day, I go to restaurants with friends.. no smoking, but for whatever reason I don’t give up.
Those videos won’t touch any smoker, but non-smoker have something to talk about. Maybe I give it another try this year to become a non-smoker, but I love a black, strong-strong coffee and a cigarette at 6 in the morning watching the sun rising out of the deep blue ocean

Rhoody

]]> By: John P. http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34484 John P. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:10:01 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34484 CJ, I've re-read my article, but fail to see how you came to read my commentary as "<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sanctimonious" rel="nofollow">sanctimonious</a> and <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/condescending" rel="nofollow">condescending</a>"? I don't think I'm any better of a human being than smokers are, and I don't believe I said anything to give anyone the opinion that I somehow look down upon them. I posed a question, "why don't smokers give a damn?" I also made a statement that I don't appreciate the hipocracy of smokers who claim to be environmentalists. In fact I said those people "don't give a crap" about the environment, so I ask them to get off my case for not driving an electric vehicle or something. I'm guessing that you mis-read my commentary, or perhaps projected some assumptions you made onto me, but I assure you I have no "holier than thou" attitude towards people just because they smoke. In fact, I put this article up for a whole group of close friends that smoke, but whom I'd very much like to see quit. They ALL know who they are! And I only took the time to assemble this post because <em>I care</em>. Now, it may be your opinion that showing the effects of tobacco does no good - but the irrefutable fact is that for <em>some people it does</em>. Frankly, the only people I care about are the ones I know, and this article allows me to refer back to the detrimental effects and nag them persistently. And that is my method of "constructive intervention". John P. CJ,

I’ve re-read my article, but fail to see how you came to read my commentary as “sanctimonious and condescending“?

I don’t think I’m any better of a human being than smokers are, and I don’t believe I said anything to give anyone the opinion that I somehow look down upon them. I posed a question, “why don’t smokers give a damn?” I also made a statement that I don’t appreciate the hipocracy of smokers who claim to be environmentalists. In fact I said those people “don’t give a crap” about the environment, so I ask them to get off my case for not driving an electric vehicle or something.

I’m guessing that you mis-read my commentary, or perhaps projected some assumptions you made onto me, but I assure you I have no “holier than thou” attitude towards people just because they smoke. In fact, I put this article up for a whole group of close friends that smoke, but whom I’d very much like to see quit. They ALL know who they are! And I only took the time to assemble this post because I care.

Now, it may be your opinion that showing the effects of tobacco does no good – but the irrefutable fact is that for some people it does. Frankly, the only people I care about are the ones I know, and this article allows me to refer back to the detrimental effects and nag them persistently. And that is my method of “constructive intervention”.

John P.

]]> By: CJ http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34478 CJ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:44:24 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34478 I think it's very easy to be sanctimonious and condescending about smokers if you have never smoked or never been addicted to a substance. I was raised in a family of smokers when smoking wasn't socially frowned upon so naturally I picked it up. I quit smoking 5 years ago - after many unsuccessful attempts - and it was harder for me than getting straight and sober had been 15 years earlier. I don't believe smoking is environmentally positive or good for you or not a public health problem - but I also don't believe that most smokers "don't give a damn" or ignore the consequences of their actions. They are addicted, plain and simple. Condemnation won't make quitting any easier for anyone. Waving around videos and PSAs and pictures of diseased lungs doesn't have any more effect on a smoker than pictures of young women burned half to death has on an alcoholic who drives drunk. Constructive intervention is the only think that has a chance of working - and even then you are totally dependent on an addict's desire and motivation to quit. Maybe instead of being holier than thou toward smokers you should simply thank your powers that be that you never got hooked. I think it’s very easy to be sanctimonious and condescending about smokers if you have never smoked or never been addicted to a substance.

I was raised in a family of smokers when smoking wasn’t socially frowned upon so naturally I picked it up. I quit smoking 5 years ago – after many unsuccessful attempts – and it was harder for me than getting straight and sober had been 15 years earlier.

I don’t believe smoking is environmentally positive or good for you or not a public health problem – but I also don’t believe that most smokers “don’t give a damn” or ignore the consequences of their actions. They are addicted, plain and simple. Condemnation won’t make quitting any easier for anyone.

Waving around videos and PSAs and pictures of diseased lungs doesn’t have any more effect on a smoker than pictures of young women burned half to death has on an alcoholic who drives drunk. Constructive intervention is the only think that has a chance of working – and even then you are totally dependent on an addict’s desire and motivation to quit.

Maybe instead of being holier than thou toward smokers you should simply thank your powers that be that you never got hooked.

]]> By: TheDane http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34474 TheDane Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:40:34 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34474 I tried smoking once, I got a packet of cigarettes from my parent's stash, and went to the back yard with a friend to try to light these cigarettes.... We made it through the packet of cigarettes somehow, but I have never been so sick in my life... And I NEVER tried again :) Kim:) I tried smoking once, I got a packet of cigarettes from my parent’s stash, and went to the back yard with a friend to try to light these cigarettes…. We made it through the packet of cigarettes somehow, but I have never been so sick in my life… And I NEVER tried again :)

Kim:)

]]> By: Derek Wong http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34472 Derek Wong Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:22:49 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34472 I've never been very tempted to try smoking, but I still found those videos pretty informative. Haha that last video was more on the surprising side than on the funny one for me. Maybe it's because I read your comment that it was comedic and was trying to anticipate the humor. I've always been of the opinion that cigarette smell disgusting, and it definitely makes me want to be somewhere else when I meet someone who has it on their breath. I’ve never been very tempted to try smoking, but I still found those videos pretty informative. Haha that last video was more on the surprising side than on the funny one for me. Maybe it’s because I read your comment that it was comedic and was trying to anticipate the humor.

I’ve always been of the opinion that cigarette smell disgusting, and it definitely makes me want to be somewhere else when I meet someone who has it on their breath.

]]> By: John P. http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34466 John P. Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:56:59 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34466 I agree with you, and I had a similar experience - though not at as young of an age. The last time I ever saw my grandfather was in the hospital before he died. It was just the two of us in the room and he pulled me close and told me "I wish I had never smoked." They were some of the last words I ever heard him say. John I agree with you, and I had a similar experience – though not at as young of an age.

The last time I ever saw my grandfather was in the hospital before he died. It was just the two of us in the room and he pulled me close and told me “I wish I had never smoked.” They were some of the last words I ever heard him say.

John

]]> By: RHB http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34462 RHB Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:43:25 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2008/01/09/a-video-collection-of-reasons-to-quit-smoking/#comment-34462 Back in the 1950's, yeah i'm old, I watched my grandmother die from lung cancer. As a 10 year old I was her favorite, and she always asked to see me. It was the greatest single lesson of the many she taught me. In the end, sallow, jaundiced, and delerious, we said goodbye, I was never tempted to try a cigarette in my life. The point is, if more people see the effects at an early age, it might help. Back in the 1950’s, yeah i’m old, I watched my grandmother die from lung cancer. As a 10 year old I was her favorite, and she always asked to see me. It was the greatest single lesson of the many she taught me. In the end, sallow, jaundiced, and delerious, we said goodbye, I was never tempted to try a cigarette in my life. The point is, if more people see the effects at an early age, it might help.

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