Smoking hurts more than the smoker!
July 9th 2008 15:45
I have just been through hell and back? Why? Because I witnessed my Aunt, whom is to me a second mother, in the most pain of her life, on a ventilator, fighting for her life as tar was sucked out of her lungs. 38 years of smoking will do that to you. I am sick of smokers saying that smoking only affects them. BULL! We all know about second hand smoke, so I don't need to even get started there. Although I will state that nothing makes this mother more angry then seeing someone smoking in their car, windows up, with children in the backseat.
My whole family was and is affected by my aunt's smoking. We all took shifts at the hospital. We stood over her night and day. We prayed and cried and hurt. Smoking affects everyone you love. Yes, we all have to die of something, but she is 56 years old, if she wasn't a smoker she wouldn't have been in the hospital getting tar sucked out of her lungs while a machine breathed for her. We wouldn't have been through the emotional rollercoaster that it all caused.
I don't understand the power of addiction, and I don't pretend that I do. To me when you are doing something, deliberately, to your body that will, or can, cause your death - why oh why do you do it? Is that nicotine high that important to you? Isn't it selfish of you to think that you are the only one that it affects in a negative manor? Bleach will kill you if you drink it, and you chose not to do that... so why do you smoke when the package itself says what it can do to you?
There have been a few blessings in this journey. After seeing what she did, I am praying my daughter will never take up this habit, and my Aunt has made it through and vows to never again touch another cigarette.
There are patches and now even pills to get you to quit the addiction. So why don't you do it? If you think you are only cheating yourselves, you couldn't be more wrong.
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