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Staying Healthy. Stop smoking, as a non smoker I believe the not smoking is a vital part of staying healthy the picture doesn't look very appetizing it's not supposed to.
You and Me and Veronica Lake
I used to smoke before they opened
my chest and surgery filled the dark
clouds roiling and rain turned acid.
My best friend died lungs full of ashes
her hula skirts dry grass rustling
in the corner then another
friend and poems scattered on pages
like incomplete love letters
sprinkles from old pipes.
I used to smoke after lost loves
and Johnny-come-lately’s
some rings singalling the best
sex or the worst the room
clouded blue under a moon gone bad
tabacco sweat leather apple smell
into sunrise stink of an old shoe.
I used to hold up my finger to find
the moon the end stained yellow
smoke rings dancing above my head
like haloes of broken moons.
I smoked past several husbands
and loyal friends lungs charred
black and sliced on a surgeon’s plate
from the burning kiss and coffin nails
voice lost in phlegm blooming cloudy
white to yellow. I smoked afternoons
thinking I think I believe smoking
makes anything possible the sexiest
come-hither look or wise pause
taking you straight to the stroke
of the pen. I smoked with silver
holsters the best tobaccos coughs
levelling the field. I smoked
with gangsters and preachers
and mothers waiting for diapers
and fitted sheets oh we were
the best in those days when
the best could be measured easily
by filters and name brands and what’s
up front that counts. I smoked
when glory days were good days
and mystery was repartee in a bar
snappy lines thrown by some old
Viceroy leading man to the nearest
femme fatale. I smoke happily
gloriously helter-skelter
and pell-mell. I smoked when suzy
parker was The Face dionne
warwick crooned for bacharach and cadillacs
had fins. I smoked to live
fast love hard die young and rise
again like a fresh face from celluloid
heaven waiting beside a smoky piano
spotlight a blurred moon behind blue clouds
and me singing torch songs forever.
Colleen J. McElroy, “You and Me and Veronica Lake” from Sleeping with the Moon. Copyright © 2007 by Colleen J. McElroy. Used by permission of University of Illinois Press and the poet.
Source: Sleeping with the Moon (University of Illinois Press, 2007)
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This is the list of 599 additives in cigarettes submitted to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in April 1994.... [NOTE:] One significant issue is that while all these chemical compounds have been approved as additives to food, they were not tested by burning. Burning changes the properties of chemicals. More than 4,000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette.
SOURCE: quitsmoking.about.com/
Explored Oct 5, 2009 #298
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I quit smoking a 2 years ago
What's about you, my friends?
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Flickr Friday Theme #Don'tgiveup sometimes giving up is the right choice so don't give up on giving up.
Public health messaging. Telling quite an emotional story.
I can't remember where I first saw this but it seems to be part of a series (more coming).
The Quitline is the go to for anyone needing help with becoming a non-smoker.
"Give up smokes is a campaign supporting Aboriginal people in South Australia to quit smoking to become healthier and enjoy more quality time with their families." www.giveupsmokes.com.au
[Think Quit_PH Messaging_IMG_9342]
Smoking constricts blood vessels and causes clogged arteries, that can lead to impotence in men.
This shot has been attempted by many photographer .. this one is my take on it.
Issued in Public Interest.
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SB-900 @ subject opp @ zoomed at 14mm.
one from the archives .
i like the 50's French movie star look of this candid
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Yep, I used to be a smoker. I don't know when the exact time I started, but I remember being in 8th grade pretending to smoke one, just to be "cool". I didn't really start inhaling until I was probably around 17. Now, my smoking habit wasn't that extreme; as I only smoked maybe two packs a week. Most of my smoking occurred either while I was driving (bad habit, again!), or while I was at work. I tried quitting many times during the past decade, but being around a lot of smokers that you work with, and plus, an excuse to take a break usually, made it quite difficult to put down the cancer stick once and for all.
Upon moving to Canada back in July '07, I made a goal for myself to quit since I wouldn't be in that atmosphere any longer. Jay didn't smoke, and he also informed me that he didn't want any smoking in our new home. So, before we left the States, I purchased two packs of my favourite brand of cigarettes (Marlboro Red 72s) to help me gradually quit.
Those two packs lasted about a month and afterward I began fighting the cravings. I think I went into bitch mode once or twice, or maybe more for all I know, then generally started feeling better. My sense of smell and taste improved, and I got rid of that nasty smell that would hang around on my fingers, and within my clothes. I know that Jay enjoyed it also since he didn't have to worry about kissing an ashtray when he kissed his wife.
Within about two or three months after quitting, I noticed that I couldn't handle the second hand smoke in confined areas like I used to when I was a smoker. It made me feel like I was suffocating, or nearly to the point of having an asthma attack. If I was out in the open it wasn't as bad, and I enjoyed the feeling it would give to me.
Fast forward to December of '07. About the midway through the month, I had to make a trip down to Buffalo, New York to take care of some business (That story comes on another day). Nearly as soon as I crossed the boarder into upstate NY, I stopped at a gas station to fill up and to pick up a pack of my favourite smokes.
Now, you might ask, why didn't you just go and get some cigarettes from the gas station/corner store in Canada, and why did you do that!? Well, for one, you see, I don't like Canadian cigarettes. They're just not as strong as a Marlboro red, and to me, the flavour wasn't the same. Throughout the whole time I was a smoker, I stuck to the same brand. I did smoke some others, but Marlboro was my brand. For question number two, I'm not sure exactly. I think I just wanted to feel those feelings again. Habits are hard to break, especially if they make you feel good.
So, after excitedly buying that pack of cigarettes, I quickly packed and lit my first cigarette in about 4 months. Boy did that sucker hurt! After that first one, I was hooked again. I'm not sure if I purchased another pack before coming back to Canada, but I remember wondering if I really wanted to quit. I kept thinking on how good it made me feel, and then again, disappointing Jay and worse yet, getting lung cancer.
Those last two things outweighed the good feeling, and since we were getting ready to go to Montreal for Christmas and New Years, I made my New Years resolution: To stop smoking, and this time for good. I knew I wasn't strong enough to do it beforehand due to Jay's mom is a heavy smoker and since we were staying with her, it would be impossible for me to not ask to bum one off of her.
Right before the ball dropped on New Years Eve, I took my last drag off the cigarette I was smoking. After putting the smoke out, I went to the room to which we were staying and informed Jay that I was done, and the relationship between cigarettes and I were over. He smiled.
Since that day, I haven't touched a cigarette, until today. Yes, I still fight cravings, but I just attribute them mostly to memories. My health has improved so much, and my asthma attacks are few and far between. All that causes them now is laughing too hard.
Stopping smoking remains an undertaking that is difficult -specifically for long time smokers- of smoking withdrawal because of the effects and verbal and /or interpersonal dependencies. However the bodies of ex-smokers encounter quick health developments that are several of smoking their last
The thing in this old man's hand is called Chillum/chilam used to smoke tobacco and cannabis by sadhus in India.
PS:quit smoking
... is the one you didn't have to make.
Every year, for more than a decade, I joined millions of others around the world who resolved to quit smoking. I had asthma. Smoking made me deathly sick. But I smoked anyway, first Djarum Black cloves and later Camel Crush.
Last March, I was standing in the snow in Memphis, Tennessee when I decided to quit smoking. I had pneumonia. It was miserably cold. My hands were shaking so badly that I could barely hold my cigarette. I was coughing, wheezing, and trying not to die. It would have been comical if it wasn't so pathetic.
I remember walking upstairs, kneeling down by my hotel bed, and asking God for help. The answer came clearly. Try those e-cigarette things again. Maybe they had improved since the time I tried them five years ago.
The next morning, I drove through the snow to a convenience store and bought a Blu e-cig. It wasn't bad. It wasn't wonderful, but it was doable. I smoked my last cigarette on March 11, 2017, and I never looked back.
Within a week, I had stopped coughing and wheezing. Within two weeks, I was forgetting to take the three asthma medications I took daily. Within three weeks, I was forgetting to carry my rescue inhaler. And now, as I look toward my one year anniversary, I wonder why I ever smoked.
Purists will say I just traded one bad habit for another, and they are correct. I quickly traded the Blu for a Halo G6, grabbed a few bottles of Vanilla Custard and Frosted Oatmeal Cookie e-liquid from Tasty Vapor, and embraced my new habit.
But the difference is this: I no longer have to have it. When I wake up, it's not the first, second, or even 10th thing I think about. I don't panic when my batteries die or I forget to bring my e-cigarette with me. Smoking no longer controls my life. I don't miss smelling or tasting like smoke. I don't miss the money I used to spend. And I definitely don't miss feeling like death every single day.
Cold turkey might have been better, but it never worked for me. This did, and while some might disagree, my lungs are grateful.
And so am I.
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Eletronic cigarette batteries for the Halo G6 e-cigarette are pictured in a row, January 5, 2018, in Coden, Alabama. Quitting smoking is a popular New Year’s resolution for many people, with some saying that smoking e-cigarettes, or vaping, has helped them give up traditional cigarettes. E-cigarettes are available with and without nicotine but do not have the tar and additional chemicals found in traditional cigarettes. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)
The Chicago City Council on Wednesday shifted to ban the smoking of e-cigarettes in most interior public areas - including restaurants and cafes - as well as everywhere within 15 feet of a building entry, just like standard cigarettes are regulated underneath the city's present indoor smoking
The Chicago City Council on Wednesday shifted to ban the smoking of e-cigarettes in most interior public areas - including restaurants and cafes - as well as everywhere within 15 feet of a building entry, just like standard cigarettes are regulated underneath the city's present indoor smoking
Actually, smokers do not gain weight that because smoking makes smokers thin and when quit smoking they restore to normal weight.
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I don't actually smoke btw, hope you like the concept though and believe it or not there was minimal processing done to this ;) like nearly all my pics so far. I have far more ambitious concepts on the way, soon hopefully.
I've had this photo in my "To Post" folder for a long time, waiting for what I thought would be an appropriate opportunity to share it with my friends on Flickr. But I've wondered to myself many times: what, or when, would be a good opportunity to share a photograph of tobacco plants??? Yes, this is a field of nearly-mature tobacco plants, photographed last Summer during a work assignment along the Virginia/North Carolina border -- the very heart of the tobacco producing region of North America. I took this photo early in the morning, as mist and low clouds were being driven off the fields by the heat of the rising Sun. It was quite a striking scene and caught my "photographer's eye" immediately.
However, I must confess that tobacco has been more than just the object of my photographic interest. I used to smoke cigarettes. Not many of them, mind you, and not very frequently. But I really enjoyed smoking them. I usually smoked a single cigarette, while I was finalizing preparations of my observatory telescope before beginning a night of asteroid hunting. As the telescope moved through its pre-programmed alignment routine, I'd lay in the hammock I had hanging next to the telescope and blow puffs of smoke into the star-studded sky. Smoking that single cigarette each night, maybe a few nights each week, was one of the most pleasurable experiences I've ever enjoyed. At most, I'd smoke a pack of cigarettes in a month; in fact, by the time I smoked the last few in the pack they were pretty stale. To make a long story short, it's been a long time since I've smoked, mainly because it's been a long time since I hunted asteroids. But the intoxicating aroma of a good cigarette (Camel Golds are my favourites) still excites my senses. When I was driving back to the Raleigh-Durham airport (both the names of well-known cigarette brands) last Summer, I passed thru a small town that had cigarette factory. I pulled off the highway, rolled down the windows, and basked in the pungent aroma of the freshly harvested tobacco leaves which were hanging in the nearby drying barns.
So why did I decide to post this photo, now? Well, January is the month of New Years resolutions, and I know that there are many folks out there who have made resolutions to stop smoking. I have no illusions about cigarettes -- I know they are dangerous and terribly addictive. So I hope that my smoker friends who are determined to quit this year will think of this image when they are tempted to smoke, with its dark, gloomy clouds, rather than thinking of the rugged cowboys or super-chic fashion models which appear so frequently in cigarette propaganda.
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Each year, the National Society dubs the 3rd Friday of November the Great American Smokeout for one-day - possibly only for smokers to kick the habit.You will get some Enerjets that should keep you awake and safe and are coffee flavored lozenge with caffeine included for those who have to
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I Quit Smoking, 820 Days Smoke Free
Smokers Cigarette Ashtray. Made at Lane Tech High School, Chicago Illinois, 1965
For a project in the Industrial Arts classes, in this case, Foundry, we made useful castings. One of the projects of mine was this ashtray.
Smoking was ingrained in the American Culture, and was sanctioned by the educational system.
Smoking was quite common and was expected as a rite of passage into adult hood.
My entire family smoked. My Dad smoked as a boy in Ohio, and all through WW II. My Mom smoked, cigarettes were always around the house. When company came, the house was so filled with smoke that it looked like a fog.
I started at sixteen, and smoked cigarettes and pipes for the next 49 years. Through all my schools, while in a shop or in engineering. At home, at leisure and while I drove. While fishing and on vacation, in Mexico and Europe.
My Dad died of emphysema and COPD, and my Mom of cancer and a stroke. Both instances of smoking related illnesses.
My Aunts and Uncles all died from similar maladies.
Smoking is an expensive and odious habit.
I HAVE STOPPED SMOKING.
It has been 820 days since I lit up. I feel great.
I quit on this attempt, my third try.
I had made many rationalizations as to why I still smoked. It was my thinking time, it relaxed me, and other delusional thoughts. I knew smoking was bad for me, but I persisted.
I wore a mustache for 35+ years. (you’ll see it in some of my older pix). My hair slowly turned white and grey, and my mustache did too. The cigarette smoke made my mustache turn brown on one side with nicotine stains. I was now instantly identifiable on sight as a smoker.
I didn’t like that.
Time to quit. I was told to do it for myself, for my health, for myself.
I didn’t do it for my self, I felt fine, and besides I did plenty for myself already. Not a good reason.
I am by nature a cheapskate (penurious, tight). The sin tax made cigarettes about $9.00 a pack. I would buy cigarettes a pack at a time. That was how I controlled my cigarette consumption.
I was now instantly identifiable as a smoker. (I took the mustache off for good)
Smoking had become way too expensive. (sin tax)
I decided to quit for sure.
For each day not smoking, I would add $9.00 on a tally I kept on my desk calendar.
My present level of money not spent on cigarettes is $7,380. ($9.00 x 820 days = $7380)
It has been 820 days since I lit up. Any method that works is the right way.
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